Vers. 3.
So Ionas arose, and vvent to Ninive according unto the word of the Lorde: novv Ninive was a great citie, and excellent, of three dayes iourney.
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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"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 execution and faithfull performance of the comman∣dement of God, as may thus appeare. For God said unto him before, vers. 2. Arise, goe to Ninive: and here it is saide, He arose, and went to Ninive according unto the word of the Lord, that Ionas may shew himselfe now to haue bene ready to obey, and not to be resisting, disobedient, and running away, as he was before. So ought we to obey God both faithfully, and also readily. And for the truth of the history, and to testifie or witnesse his obedience, he describeth Ninive, to shew that he came into the selfe same city, and that he told the selfe same things, the which God had commaunded him: that is to say, hee came unto that same very great city Ninive, * 1.1 the which as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus lib. 3. cap. 1. doe affirme, was more then 30. French leagues, and was seated by the river Tygris. Strabo lib. 5. Geograph. saith, that there were certaine remnants thereof, the which are called a ci∣tie. Tacitus lib. 12. Annal. Marcellinus lib. 14. and 18. doe attri∣bute it unto Commagena. Now albeit he were sent both alone and also a stranger, and to tell them being infidels, hard and hea∣vie newes, yet is he not afraid, being both instructed in faith, and also now taught by experience of the might and power of God in preserving him. So Elizeus goeth to Damascus, 2. King. cap. 8. ver. 7. So must we in like manner despising all dangers fol∣low God when he calleth us Exod. cap. 3. and Ierem. cap. 1. The repentance therefore of Ionas was true. Further, why this citie Ninive was so great, the reason is, for that before the Empire of the Macedonians, those countreyes were inhabited onely by streetes: and there were very few cities in them, as saith Plinie libr. 6. Histor. Nat. cap. 26. It was situate or seated by the river Tygris as hath bene said.
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* 1.1
The greatnes of Ninive.