day of the Lord: the strong man shall cry there bitterly. So is it like∣wise taken Ierem. 49. ver. 8. in these words: Flee, ye inhabitants of Dedan (they are turned backe, and haue consulted to dwell) for I haue brought the destruction of Edom vpon him, and the time of his visita∣tion. Thus then shall these thinges fall out vnto them most iustly. For they are a iust reward and recompence of their vngodlines, in∣iquitie and idolatrie, and finally of their contempt of God, whose true Prophets and doctrine these men refused, and entirely embra∣ced the false and lying prophets. Therefore the conclusion and summe of the causes of this wrath of God against the Israelites, is comprehended in these words, The daies of recompence, the which causes by way of explanatiō, but yet briefly, are afterwards here set down: but they are first recalled al of them vnto their proper & true fountaine, to wit, for that they despising the worde of God, fol∣lowed the deuises of men, and the authors of those deuises, name∣ly the false prophets. And these false prophets doth the Spirite of God describe by sundrie epithets or titles, to the ende they may be the more hated of all the godly, what outwarde shew so euer they doe pretende or make of doctrine and holinesse. He calleth them therefore in regard of their doctrine, fooles and madde men, name∣ly as being such, who doe faine that they heare and see the thinges the which they neither see nor heare. Such a one in our time was G. Postellus, the canker of Christianitie; such at this day are the Papists, and those which at the first sought the foundations of po∣pish doctrine out of the apparitions or appearings of the deade, and of reuelations made vnto them, and the speakings of idols vnto them. Last of all he calleth them, full of wind, that is, of vani∣tie and lying. And as touching their manners, what these false pro∣phets were, and are, may casily be vnderstoode, and it is also set downe in the verse following, when as they are described to be the haters and persecutors of all good men, and such as are in deede godly. Last of all, the prophet vseth a certaine briefnesse and short∣nesse of speech, and comprehending in fewe words those causes of the iudgements of God against them, saith: That all these former iudgements of God against the Israelites, are worthily put in exe∣cutio••, because of the multitude of their iniquities: and espe∣cially because of the hatred of the said Israelites, both within them selues, and one against another, and also against all the godly, and such as truely worship God. For they hated them with more then mortal or deadely hatred, as the verse following sheweth. For he