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. 17.
For how great is his goodnes! and how great is his bew∣tie? corne shall make the young men cheerefull, and new wine the maides.
* 1.1AN amplification of the former promise by the figure Epi∣phonema, or acclamation, that men might be stirred vp vnto the earnest consideration and weighing of the benefites of God, the which for the most part they make but small accounte of, or passe them ouer blind folded. The Prophet therefore wondring crieth out and pronounceth, that neither the number of the bene∣fites of God toward his church, nor their profit, and excellencie,
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can sufficiently of any man be rehearsed, no nor of himselfe nei∣ther. Afterward by an argument from things compared he shew∣eth, that at the length and in the end they shall bee publikely ac∣knowledged, and set forth by all sortes of men. For if this good∣nes and bounteousnes of God be praised of boyes and girles that are not indued with any great iudgement, by reason of the excee∣ding great and euident store of all things powred out by God vp∣on his church, how much more shall it so be by men growne, and such as haue a setled and stayed iudgement in the considering of the liberalitie of God? So then this blessing of God shall make then young men, and maidens eloquent and full mouthed in the publishing and setting forth of the prayse of God Psalm. 8.
Notes
* 1.1
An amplifica∣tion of the for∣mer promise by the figure Epi∣phonema which what it is, see Ionas cap. 2. ver. 9.