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. 14.

Surely in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Isra∣el vpon him, I will also visit the Altars of Beth-el, and the hornes of the Altar shall be broken off, and fall to the ground.

* 1.1A Description of the second part of the iudgements of God, or pu∣nishment against the Israelites, the which consisteth of two parts. The first containeth the destruction of all their holy places, that is, of those places, in the which because of their religions and Idolatries, * 1.2 they did put considence or trust. And these places are signified vnder the name of Beth-el; because they had placed the chiefe exercises of their Idolatry in the townes or cities of Dan and Beth-el. God therefore in this place doth pull downe and take from them those things which they held, as religious and holy, and inuio∣lable or such as could not be broken, and should remaine for euer because of their religiousnes, and the which they did oppose or set against the threatnings of God, as a most safe and sure buckler or shield, whereunder they might hide themselues. For all their holy places shall be ouerthrowne, their altars shall be clouen in sunder, and the hornes of their altars (the which are thought to be holier then the other partes) shall be broken. For nothing is able to stand against the threatnings of God, * 1.3 but the repentance of men: and as for these places, they were but monuments and instruments of meere and blasphemous Idolatry. Nowe the things the which Amos here threatneth, fell out or came to passe when as Iosias did purge and cleanse all that whole countrey from Idolatry, 2. King. cap. 23. ver 15. for thus is it there written concerning this matter: Furthermore the altar that was at Beth-el, and the hie place made by Ieroboam, the Sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne, both this altar, and also the high place brake he downe, and burnt the hie place, and stampt it to powder, and burnt the groue.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A descriptiō of the second part of Gods iudge∣mēts the which hath two parts.
• * 1.2

  1 The ouer∣throw of their holy places.
• * 1.3

  Nothing but repentance can stand against the threat∣nings of God.