The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

MICAH. I. II.

IN the reign of Jotham beginneth Micah to Prophesie, and mourn∣eth sadly for the ten Tribes Captivity, which now drew near, and for the misery of Jerusalem which was not far off. He was a Prophet in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezechiah; and it is more proper to conceive, that the subject and matter of his whole Book was the tenor of his prophesying in every one of their times, then it is easie to tell what Chapters of his Book were delivered in eve∣ry one of those Kings time. The conclusion of the third Chapter is al∣lotted to the times of Hezekiah, Jer. 26. 18. and there may the whole Chapter be laid, and all the rest that follow it, and there shall we take them in. Micah was a Prophet of Mareshah in the Tribe of Judah, bordering upon the Philistims, Josh. 15. 44. 2 Chron. 14. 19. He begin∣neth his Prophesie with the very same words that Michaiah had conclu∣ded his to Ahab, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 1 King. 22. 28. in a strange Syntax and construction: Hearken ye people all of them, his Prophesie is in some places very obscure, and very terrible, and in some very plain and com∣fortable. He speaketh glorious things of Christ, and his Kingdom, and nameth the Town where he should be born, and useth the very words of Esay, who was now alive, to express the conflux to the Kingdom

of Christ under the Gospel, and his power in it, and the peace that should be under it.