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.

Then she that is mine enemie shall looke vpon it, and shame shall couer her, which sayd vnto me, where is the Lord thy God? Mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be troden downe as the mire in the streetes.

* 1.1AN amplification of the former patience and comfort the which is felt by the Church by meanes of her iustification, to wit, be∣cause in the end the very enemies of God themselues shal acknow∣ledge and confesse the same righteousnes of the Church. This shall

come to passe both in the last iudgemēt: & also it doth com to passe, as often as God by the preaching of his word doth make it known vnto the world, that the doctrine of his church is the truelight of the Gospel and heauenly godlines. And now out of this confession and acknowledging of this righteousnes wherewith the Church was endued, and the which is made by the enemies, followeth the shame & reproch of the sayd enemies: and that especially in those scoffes and taunts, wherewith they sharply and bitterly laughed to scorne the hope which the Church did repose or put in GGD, de∣manding of the poore afflicted church, Where is thy God? And af∣ter this sort doe the wicked gibe and floute the godly Psal. 42. and 43. Finally,* 1.2 how great this shame and reproch of the enemies of the church shal be, is declared by a double effect, namely, both for that the church her selfe shall see with her eyes, and also euen in this world that same exceeding confusion of her enemies: and the enemies themselues shall be despised of all men, and be troden vnder foote of euery one, as the mire in the streetes. These things no doubt come to passe, when as God openeth the light of his truth vnto the world. Then the enemies of the church are most abiect and contemned, as we see in these our dayes, when as poperie is banished and cast away, in this yeare of the Lord 1582.

Notes

• * 1.1

  An amplificati¦on of the for∣mer patience and comfort of the church.
• * 1.2

  The great shame and re∣proch of the e∣nemies of the Church.