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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Vers. 11.
And he said vnto mee, to build it an house in the Land of Shinar, and it shall be established and set there vpon her owne place.
* 1.1THe interpretation of the vision, the which hath two parts. For he describeth both the place, and also the time or stay and continuance of this iudgement there. The place,* 1.2 where this bu∣shell or Ephah most full of the anger and vengeance of GOD was to be placed at the appoyntment of God, is the land of Sen∣naar or Shinar, that is, Babylon, or Chaldaea,* 1.3 and the countries nere vnto it, [unspec 1] the which had carried away the people of God into captiuitie, vsed them hardly, and intreated them cruellie, on the which the Lord will now take punishment. [unspec 2] The time of the con∣tinuance of the vengeance of God against the Babylonians shall be for a great season and long. For the vengeance of God shall re∣maine there established, and setled as it were in her foundation, out of the which it cannot afterward be easelie plucked, and pul∣led. Thus dooth the Lord punish his enemies in the end: albeit that whilest they afflict or trouble his church, they doe careleslie contemne or despise, and laugh God to scorne. For (as Dauid teacheth vs Psal. 75. ver. 8.) in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixt, and he powreth out of the same: surelie all
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the wicked of the earth shall wring out and drinke the dregs thereof. And as it is in the Psalm. 32. ver. 10. Many sorrowes shall come to the wicked: but hee that trusteth in the Lord, mercie shall compasse him. It seemeth that these selfe same things may bee applied vnto many nations of our time, which haue most hardlie afflicted the Church of God.