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.

Vers, 4.

But the Lord sent out a great vvinde into the Sea, and the was a mightie tempest in the Sea, so that the ship was like u••∣broken.

* 1.1THE second part of the chapter unto the 13. verse. in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 which is shewed what iudgements of God did pursue Io•••• fleeing from God, the very infidels being witnesses and ackno••∣ledging the same. And first of all, a tempest, and the same mo•••• cruell and raging, is sent by God upon the whole shippe and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 only for Ionas his sake sailing with them. Secondly he himse•••• (condemning himselfe by his owne sentence) is cast into these 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the infidels beholding and perceiving the iudgement of God a∣gainst him. And the tempest it selfe is here described very feare full: first by a winde, and the same most vehement or strong, a•••• sing or sent upon the sudden, and beyond the common obse••••••∣tion or marking of the marriners: so that it might easily appeare that some thing was then done meerely by God, and extraord••∣narily. This kind of winde Luc. 8.23. is called Latlaps, that is, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 whirle winde. and Act. 27.14, Anemos Tuphonikos, a stormy wi•••• called Euroolydon.* 1.2 Secondly by the troubling of the aire, where by the storme arose, and the same a very great one. Thirdly, b•• the consequent, or the effect that followed, the ship was in ve∣ry great hazard to be lost or to suffer shipwracke. Compare th•• place with the shipwracke of Paul. Act. 27.14. &c.

[Question.] Here a question is demanded, why others shoulde come•••• daunger of loosing their life for Ionas his sake, who onely w••••

guiltie? [Answer.] I answer, that God hath alwaies cause sufficient, why to destroy us both every one particularly, and all of us generally, and that for our owne sinnes, and not for the sinnes of others, al∣beit that God many times have occasion ministred from others, with whome we liue, to execute his iudgements against us.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The secōd part of this chapter of the iudge∣ments of God against Jonas for his disobedi∣ence. 1. The tempest. 2. He is cast into the sea. The tempest described 1. By an extra∣ordinary wind.
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  2. By the trou∣bling of the aire 3. By that which followed tow∣ards the ship.