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. 6.

Yea the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is himselfe his memo∣riall.

A Staying still in the same matter,* 1.1 wherein the Prophet doth de∣clare both who that God was whome Israel so greatly sought

after, and moreouer addeth as it were for an aduantage, a conse∣quence or conclusion at the length, to mooue and rouse vp the Is∣raelites. As for the declaration and making plaine, or shewing who that God is, whome Iacob followed, that is contained in this verse: and the consequence or conclusion in the verse following.* 1.2 That God therefore, whose good will Iacob or Israel did so earnestly embrace, is both the God of hostes, and also is called Iehouah by his proper and peculiar name. For this name did God him selfe shew vnto men, as his memoriall or remembrance, as the Greekes speake, to wit, that men might knowe the true God by this name,* 1.3 might remember him, might seuer him out from idols, might acknowledge his power to bee infinite, and the cause of all things that are. And therefore Exod. 3. ver. 14, 15. after that Mo∣ses hath asked of God, what hee should say vnto the Israelites his name to bee, tell them saith GOD, (I am) hath sent mee vnto you: this is my name for euer, and this is my memoriall vnto allages. For he is that Iehouah, the which is both of himselfe, and by him∣selfe: and also giueth vnto all things that are, their being, as Paul sheweth Act. 17. ver. 28. For in him (saith he) we liue and moue, and haue our being. And Apocal. 1.8. I am Alpha, and O Mega, the be∣ginning and the ending. God then hath reserued this name vnto him∣selfe, as his owne proper name,* 1.4 and as his token and marke of him∣selfe. There is a like place, Exod. 13. ver. 3. Psalm. 68. ver. 4. And this explication or shewing what God Iacob serued, dooth refute or o∣uerthrow and condemne all that worship which the Israelites vsed vnto idols. For Iacob did not worship idols, but the true God, the true Iehouah. Therefore you doe not imitate or follow your father Iacob. So saith he Aeneid. lib. 2.

At non ille, satum quo te mentiris, Achilles Talis in hoste fuit Priamo:—

Englished by Phaer thus:* 1.5

Not so did he (whom falsely thou beliest to be thy sier): Achilles with his enemie Priam deale:—

Notes

• * 1.1

  A continuing in the same matter.
• * 1.2

  What God he was, whom Ia∣cob so earnestly embraced.
• * 1.3

  Mnemosynon.
• * 1.4

  I take this place to be misse quoted, for Exod. 6. ver. 2.
• * 1.5

  The wordes of Priamus vnto Pirrhus.