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.

Ver. 7.

The Lord is good, and as a strong hold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him.

* 1.1A Comfort of the godly, that is, of the people of GOD, for the strengthening & vpholding of whom only, God would haue

this prophesy of the ouerthrowing of the Assirians (as who namely afflicted or troubled the Israelites) to be preached & extant or re∣maining. To the end therefore that the godly should not be terri∣fied or dismaied with such and so feareful a description of the pow∣er of God, Nahum doth comfort them, and sheweth that God will deale otherwise for those that are his, which do serue and worship him; then he threatneth that he will be vnto his enemies, that is the Assirians. For God defendeth those that are his, with the self-same his surpassing might & power, wherewith he breaketh his enemies in peeces.* 1.2 So the Angels being heauenly souldiers do make afraid the vngodly, keeping and watching the sepulchre of Christ, but do comfort the godly women, and do speake courteously vnto them. Mat. 28. ver. 4.5. For the souldiers for feare were astonied & became as dead men, at the sight of the Angell. But he answered and sayd to the women, feare ye not, &c. God then, which will be so terrible or fearefull vnto the Assirians, and his enemies, he the self-same will be gentle, fauourable, good, vnto his people, and the men that do feare him, and will acknowledge them for his, & will marke them out in the middest of the miseries and afflictions of the vngodly, that they fall not together with them.* 1.3 Xenophon in his bookes of the education or bringing vp of Cyrus writeth, how that when Ba∣bylon was taken by Cyrus, commaundment was giuen, that the Syrians and Iewes (which were the people of God) should be spa∣red, and that the Chaldees should be slaine. God therfore is good toward those which by a true faith trust in him, that is, he is merci∣full vnto them and saueth them: he is an ayd vnto them, and at hand in time of trouble to succour and help them. Finally, he doth ac∣knowledge them, that is, he doth seuer them and marke them from those whom he destroyeth. So he preserued and kept Lot safe and sound out of the middest of the destruction of Sodom, Gen. 19. ver. 29. But yet when God destroyed the citties of the plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middest of the destruction, when he ouerthrew the citties, wherin Lot dwelled.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A comfort of the godly
• * 1.2

  The Angels that terrifie the vngodly war∣ders of the se∣pulchre, com∣fort the godly women, that come to seeke Christ.
• * 1.3

  Xenophon.