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. 19.

As if a man did flee from a lyon, and a beare met him: or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

* 1.1A Confirmation of the former reprehension by a similitude, the which is set downe as it were by the way of answering an ob∣iection.

For worser euill shall betide them each day, then others, neither shall there be any place wherein they may bee safe against those euils. If they shall say, we shall be safe abroad or at home, the Prophet answereth, that they shall not be without danger, nei∣ther abroad, or without doores, nor yet at home or within. Moreo∣uer they shal go frō misery to miserie, frō punishment into punish∣mēt, & they shall alwaies grow worse and worse. If they she from a Lyon, they shall light vpon a Beare. If they shal suppose that they haue prouided some safety for thēselues, or that they haue taken i••, being offered vnto them: they shal euen there be in like danger as if they had layd holde vpon a venemous serpent, which shall bee them. Their case therefore and estate, shall bee most lamentable. There is a like place Ierem. 48 ver. 43, 44. Feare, and pit, and sn•••• (sayth he) shall be vpon thee, ô inhabitant of Moah, saith the Lord. He that escapeth from the feare, shall fall in the pit, and he that getteth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 out of the pit shall bee taken in the snare: for I will bring vpon it, eu•••• vpon Moab, the yeare of their visitation, sayth the Lord. And almost the selfe same words are Isai 24. ver. 17.18. And this also is set downe by the way of answering an obiection, that they should not thinke that by change of times, or places, or things, they can be in any better case if they remaine obstinate and stubborne is their sinnes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The confirma∣tion of the for∣mer reprehen∣sion.