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. 9.

And the hie places of Ishak shall be desolate, and the temples of Israel shall be destroyed: and I will rise against the ••cuse of Ie∣roboam with the sword.

* 1.1A Confirmation taken from the euent and falling out of things, or from the punishment the which shall come vpon them from God, iudging and examining their deedes and workes. This pu∣nishment is twofold. One, the which is in common and indiffe∣rently threatned vnto all the people, to wit,* 1.2 That it shall come to passe, that their hie places and Chappels, that is to say, those places in which they doe especially trust because of their religiousnesse, shall be layd waste, and ouerthrowne: and their other munitions and fortresses in like manner, and places in which they supposed that they should be in safetie and finde some ayde. And he calleth those places,* 1.3 in the which the Calues & Idols were worshipped by the Israelites, Temples, Sanctuaries, or holie places, not that they were so indeed, but by yeelding vnto them the names the which they of superstition gaue vnto them: like as the Idols also of the heathen are, according vnto the opinion which they themselues haue of them, in the holie Scripture called gods. He calleth them also the hie places of Isaac,* 1.4 because they were builded by the Israe∣lites in those places, in the which the Patriarch Isaac did somtimes offer sacrifice, but vnto the true God, and by the commaundement & appoyntment of God himselfe, when as there was not as yet any certaine Temple of God, in the which one and alone, God would haue sacrifices to bee offered vnto him: as then there was, to wit, the Temple at Ierusalem. Therefore there was not then the like reason of the Israelites for worshipping in those places, when as there both was a Temple appoynted by God for sacrifices: and when as they themselues in those hie places did sacrifice vnto I∣dols, and not vnto the true God. Wherefore the example of Isaac

did helpe them nothing at all, but rather all this was an apish, vai•••• and counterfeit imitation or following of the worship of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Patriarches,* 1.5 like as was the worship of the Samaritans, where•••• seemeth that they much boasted, by the speech that the woma•• Samaria had with Christ Ioh. 4. ver. 20. where she sayth: O•••• ••∣thers worshipped in this mountaine, and ye say that in Ierusalem is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 place wherein men ought to worship.

* 1.6The second punishment here threatned, belongeth peculi•••• vnto Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas, whose familie and house is s•••• shall be smitten with the sword. The which thing came afterw•••••••• to passe, as it is declared 2. King. cap. 15. ver. 10. where mentio•• made how Shallum rose vp against Zachariah the sonne of I••••∣boam, and slew him, in whom that line ceased. The words be th•••••• And Shallum the sonne of Iabesh conspired against him (to wi••, ••∣gainst Zachariah) and smote him in the sight of the people, and ki•••••••• him, and reigned in his stead.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A confirmatiō of the former similitude.
• * 1.2

  1. A generall pu∣nishment.
• * 1.3

  The Idol places in what sense called Sanctu∣aries or holie Temples.
• * 1.4

  The hie places of their Idols why called the hie places of Isaac.
• * 1.5

  The wo••ship of the Israelits an apish imitatiō of the old Pa∣triarches.
• * 1.6

  2 A particular punishment for Ieroboam and his house.