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. 16.

Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord sayth thus, mi••••∣ning shall be in all streetes: and they shall say in all the highw••••••, Alas, alas: and they shall call the husbandmen to lamentati•••• and such as can mourne, to mourning.

* 1.1THe confirmation, or amplification of the former exhortation vnto repentance, taken from the greatnesse of the punishmen••

in a readines & to bee looked for otherwise, that is of the vnrepen∣tant: the which greatnesse is described and set forth by the adiuncts and the same diuers and sundrie. * 1.2 And first of all it is described by the effect, because it shall be such, and so grieuous a punishment & plague, the which remaineth for the obstinate and stubborne sin∣ners, as will not onely breed sorow, and a bitter feeling and sadnes in their heart: but also such as will procure open mourning, that is to say, publike gestures, as witnesses and bewrayers of their great heauinesse: because that this sorowe can be no longer smothered and kept in. Now this punishment is most heauie, the which shall draw forth and stirre vp such manifest and publike teares, & mour∣ning and knocking of their breasts. * 1.3 The second is described by the place: for in all streetes and high waies these mournings and cry∣ings shall be made. The third, by the persons. * 1.4 For they shalbe made by all degrees of men, yea euen by the husbandmen, and vinedres∣sers, a kind of men otherwise most hard and tough, and able to en∣dure and beare out things: and that most heauilie, and in such sort as if they had been vsed and trained vp to mourning: but because of the greatnesse of the punishments, and miserie (the which euen these hard men shall also feele) they shall after this manner pub∣likly mourne with weeping teares with others. And that euen those persons the which are neuer so slow to repent, may vnderstand all these things to be most true, the Prophet rehearseth the power, and maiestie, and nature of God that cannot lye, and whose power no∣thing can resist or withstand, who threatneth these iudgements vn∣to them Titus. 1. God then, and that he which is the true Iehouah, & the Lord of hostes, that is, the Lord of heauen and earth, threatneth these things: and therefore they shall most assuredly come to passe vnto the vnrepentant.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The amplifica∣tion of the for∣mer exhortatiō
• * 1.2

  1. By the effect.
• * 1.3

  2. By the place.
• * 1.4

  3. By the persons.