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. 10.

But all the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The euill shall not come, nor hasten for vs.

* 1.1AN other explanation, or making more plaine of the matter, where the kind of punishmēt is more specially declared, where∣withall

the Israelites are to bee destroyed, to wit, they shall perish with slaughter, and with the sword, that is, by a most cruell death, and full of terror and feare. And there is added in this place also an explication or laying open of the matter more plainly of the most impudent or shameles lewdnes of these men, to the end that their so grieuous punishment may seeme to be the more iust.* 1.2 For they were not only wicked, and sinners in such sort as all men generally and naturally are, but notoriously vnfaithfull, and scoffers at God & his word: as namely being such who openly scorned the threat∣ning of God, and the oracles or prophesies of his Prophets, and de∣nied that these so great calamities or punishments should either come at them at al, or els that they should come so soone, and spee∣dilie, to wit, mocking God carelesly, as if they had made a couenant with death it selfe. Against such kind of scorners speaketh God by his Prophet Isai. cap. 28 ver. 15. which say: We haue made a coue∣nant with death, and with hell are we at agreement: though a scourge runne ouer, and passe through, it shall not come at vs: for wee haue made falsehood our refuge, and vnder vanitie are we hid. But reade what followeth in that place touching their punishment. And thus farre hath Amos threatned punishments vnto the Israelites.

Notes

• * 1.1

  An other ex∣planation.
• * 1.2

  What manner of sinners the Israeli••es w••••e.