A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge.
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A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge.
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Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?
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[Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legate, printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge [and at London, by J. Orwin] 1594. And are to be sold [by R. Bankworth] at the signe of the Sunne in Paules Church-yard in London,
[1594]
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Bible. -- O.T -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19799.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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THE WORLD FROM THE CREATION vntill the comming of Christ▪ diuided into seuen ages, and what Prophets of name flourished in euery one of them, as more at large in the fore-notes appeareth.
The first age of the worl•• from the cre∣ation v••to the flood containing 1656. yeares, had these Prophets:
...Adam
...Abel
...Enoch
...Noach
The second age from the floud vntil the first calling of Abraham out of Vr of the Chaldees con aining 422. yeares, had ei∣ther none at all, or els very fewe prophets knowne vnto vs out of the word of God, except these may be coūted in that nūber:
...Sem
...Melchisedech
The third age from the first cal••ing of Abraham vnit the giuing of the Lawe by Motes in the de¦sert of Sinai, con∣taining 430 yeares, had these Prophets:
...Abraham
...Isaach
...Iaacob
...Ioseph
...Aaron
...Miriam the prophetisse.
The fourth age from the giuing of the Law vntill the building of the Temple by Salomon containing 480. yeares, bad th••se Prophets:
...Ioshua
...Debora the Prophetisse.
...Samuel
...Dauid
...Nathan
...Gad
The sift age from the Tēple vnto the captiuitie of the ten tribes containing 294. yeares, had Prophets almost in∣numerable, but of name, these
...Ahias
...Iadi
...Semeias
...Addo
...Azarias
...Hanani
...Iehu
...Elias
...Micheas 1.
...Elizeus
...Ionas
...Amos
...Oseas
...Esaias
...Micheas 2.
The 6 age frō the captiuitie of the tē tribes till the times of the full captiuitie of Baby∣lon, is 133. yeares! in this age flourished these Pro∣phets, whose names are re∣corded in the Scriptures.
...Nahum
...Ieremie
...Ioel
...Olda the pro∣phetisse.
...Sophonias
...Abdias
...Habacuk
...Ezechiel
The seuenth and last age from the captiuitie of Babylon vntill the birth of Christ containing 508. yeares, had these Prophets, whose names are written in the Bible.
...Daniel
...Aggeus
...Zacharias
...Zacharias father of Iohn
...Baptist.
...Simeon
...Malachias Anna the prophetisse.
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