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.
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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.
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Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?
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[Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legate, printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge [and at London, by J. Orwin] 1594. And are to be sold [by R. Bankworth] at the signe of the Sunne in Paules Church-yard in London,
[1594]
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Bible. -- O.T -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19799.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Vers. 6.
Therefore behold, I will stop thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that she shall not finde her paths.
* 1.1THe threatning of a most grieuous punishment: namely, of great straites and troubles, whereinto God at the last shall bring and force this nation, so that at that time there will be no gadding and running vnto their idols, and idoll Temples, to wit, they shall so straightly and narrowly bee besieged by their enemies, that then they cannot get forth of their cities, and runne vnto Bethel & Dan, where they had their idols placed. Therfore their paths shall be be∣set and hedged in with thornes, that albeit in their hearts & mindes they doe seeke after those their forged and framed Gods, yet can they not with their feet go vnto them: although being in such sort afflicted or troubled they doe call vpon them, yet from them shall
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they feele no helpe nor comfort. And these things doe indeede fall out vnto idolaters.* 1.2 But the true GOD is alwayes neere vnto his Church, and doth not at any time forsake the same, and is not to be sought after from place to place, as if he did flee away from her: neither is he at any time sought or called vpon in vain, but as Christ teacheth Matth. 7. ver. 7. If they aske, it shall be giuen them: if they seeke, they shall finde: if they knocke, it shall be opened vnto them. And the Psalmist comfortably to this effect and purpose writeth Psalm. 145. ver. 18. The Lord is neere to all that call vpon him: yea, to all that call vpon him in trueth.