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. 14.
For thus saith the Lord of hostes, As I thought to pu∣nish you, when your fathers prouoked me vnto wrath, saith the Lord of hostes, and repented not.
* 1.1THis is the rendring of a reason of the former amplification, that is, of so great a blessing of God which should fall vpon the Iewes, whereunto also there is added the answering of an ob∣iection, that might be made. The reason is, for that God being ap∣peased toward them, dooth now thinke, and purpose to doe good vnto them. The answering of an obiection, for that albeit he did worthelie afflict or punish them and their ancetours before, yet notwithstanding hee hath now decreed with himselfe to bestowe benefites vpon them. The answering of the obiection is contei∣ned in this verse: and in the verse following the reason or answer vnto the same. For the calling to remembrance of their former e∣state, and of the most grieuous threatnings of God against them, might trouble their mindes Ierem. 25. God therefore preuenteth or meeteth as it were by the way with this obiection. He confes∣seth therefore that they were before, and also most iust (hee mea∣neth his threatnings) because that he was prouoked and kindled
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by the most stubborne vices of them and their forefathers, how soeuer hee bare with them with a gentle, patient, and mercifull mind. But as if the patience of God had been ouercome with their vncurable wilfulnes, that which is added (it repented me not) shew∣eth that the counsell and purpose of God was both seasonable or in due time, and iust, when as he chasteneth the Iewes, and his Church: and also that such punishments are healthfull and profi∣table for his Church, the which by God are inflicted or layd vpon it: for they are medicines.