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. 7.

Thus againe he shewed me, and behold, the Lord stoode vp∣on a wall made by line, with a line in his hand.

* 1.1THe third vision the which containeth not onely a punishment: but also the destruction of Israel, for as much as the Israelites re∣pented

not being warned neither by the first, nor yet by the second punishment, nor turned themselues vnto God earnestly: for ab•••• that at the last vnder Oseas their last King, that same outragio•••• ••••∣grosse Idolatry were a little in some sorte repressed, or restrayne•• yet was not therefore notwithstanding the true worship of God•• stored or set vp among them, as appeareth 2. King. 17. And h•••• first of all in this verse the vision it selfe is described: and the e••••∣sition thereof in the verse that followeth. The vision therefore 〈◊〉〈◊〉 presented these two things vnto the Prophet, to wit, God himse•••• who stoode vpon some wall: and also who held now in his ha•••• rule, leauel or line. For to the ende that the signification of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vision might be the better vnderstood, and from whence it was ••••∣ken, God after this maner shewed himselfe like vnto a master ••••∣penter or chiefe builder, as he doth also Zach. cap. 2. ver. 1, 2. I•••• similitude therefore seemeth to be taken from Carpenters and ••••••∣sons weighing and considering some thing earnestly and diligent∣ly in a building. The which that they may do, whether anythi•••• be at the first or newly to be built, or being already built, be to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 corrected and amended: or finally whether it be to be leau•••••• they vse their line and squire, that they may do it by leauel, that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by most iust measure and rule, and that they doe not determine 〈◊〉〈◊〉 set downe any thing rashly, or beyond the rules of their a•••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 word, they frame it according vnto rule in all points.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The 3. vision.