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. 9.
Heare this I pray you, ye heads of the house of Iaacob, and Princes of the house of Israel: they abhorre iudgement, and per∣uert allequitie.
* 1.1A Confirmation of the former sentence by a proofe and example of the same▪ He sayd that he was called of God, to declare vnto both people their sinnes: now he performeth the same. So Paul tel∣leth the Corinthians Epist. 2. cap. 13. ver. 3. That they shall haue ex∣perience and triall of Christ that speaketh in him. And Epist. 1. cap. 4. ver. 21. asketh them, What will ye? shall I come vnto you with a rod, or in loue, and in the spirit of meekenes? Therefore in this place Mi∣cheas directeth his words vnto them both, whom he maketh guil∣tie of the same crimes. And those are, that they doe not onely with themselues lothe and detest (albeit they bee the heads and gouer∣nours of all the people) iudgement, that is, the thing which is done, or ought to be done iustly, and holily: but also doe peruert or let it, if any goe about to follow, establish, or commend the things which are holy and right. So we see that the Princes, and heads of the peo∣ple turned away from the true worship of God many otherwise godly Kings, as Asa, Ioas, and others more. For they seeme especi∣ally to haue been authors of Idolatrie. And therefore the Prophet Isaias also inueigheth especially against them cap. 1. But Micheas setteth vpon the heads themselues, and not only vpon the common
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sort and people, to shew that he doth his duetie without accepting of persons, that he is the seruant of God, and not of men, as those false Prophets were: finally that he is indued with that true cōstan∣cie, of the which he spake in the verse before.