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. 5.

And I said, Let them set a fayre diademe vpon his head. So they set a fayre diademe vpon his head, & clothed him with gar∣ments, and the Angell of the Lord stood by.

* 1.1THe second promise of God, to wit of the glorie, and the same dignitie to be giuen againe vnto this ministerie of the church once restored, the which it had before, and in times past. The which in this place is set downe vnder shadowes and figuratiuely, and by a Synecdoche. Vnder shadowes or figuratiuelie, when as by the name of a miter or diademe the priestlie dignitie is signified. And by the figure Synecdoche, when as the prophet by the part,* 1.2 that is, by the name of the Priestes Miter or diademe doth com∣prehend his whole apparrel and al the dignitie of the priesthood, that is, of the ministerie of the church. For the Miter or this dia∣deme

was but one part only of the Priestes apparrell, yet the chie∣fest and highest part, because it had written vpon it Holines of ho∣lines of Iehouah, and was worne vpon the head, as is shewed in this place. And it hath an Emphasis, or vehemencie and force, whereas it is commanded that a fayre one bee set vpon his head, to wit, so braue, large, and perfect one, as was in time past, least any thing of the former dignitie thereof might seeme to be diminished. Fi∣nally, for the confirming of the euent or falling out and fulfilling of this promise, the Angels which stoode by as ministers vnto Christ, are said now already to haue set this Miter or diademe vp∣pon the head of Iehoshua, yea and that Christ being present, and standing by that is, seeing and marking, that all things should bee done, as he had appointed.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The second pro∣mise of God of the restoring vnto the mini∣sterie of the church her for∣mer dignitie.
• * 1.2

  What the fi∣gure Synecdo∣che is, see Amos cap. 5. ver. 21.