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. 6.

Shall not all these take vp a parable against him, and a taunting prouerb against him, & say, Ho, he that increaseth that, which is not his? how long? and hee that ladeth himselfe with thicke clay?

* 1.1AN amplification of this iudgement of God against the Chal∣deans by the bitter taunt of the nations in subiection vnto them, and by their most tart and ••••arp quip against them so af∣flicted or punished by God. For first of all, all men shall acknow∣ledge

their punishment to be iust, and in the very middest of their afflictions or punishments shall reprochfullie cast into their teeth their couetousnes, and their vaine carke and care in gathering to∣gether of gold that is the clay of the earth. See what is written concerning this matter of bringing downe the pride of these Ba∣bylonians, and laying their honor in the dust, Isai cap. 13. ver. 9, 10 11. Behold, the day of the Lord, commeth, cruell, with wrath, & fierce anger, to lay the land waste, and he shall destroy the sinners out of it. For the Starres of Heauen and the Planets thereof shall not giue their light: the Sunne shall be darkened in his going forth, and the Moone shall not cause her light to shine. And I will visite the wickednes vpon the world, and their iniquitie vpon the wicked, and I will cause the ar∣rogancie of the proude to cease, and will cast downe the pride of ty∣rants. Againe, cap. 14. ver. 9, 10, 11, 12. There is yet more liuelie described the ignominious and foule reprochfull fall of the King of Babylon, and how hee is derided and scorned in regard of the same, after this maner: Hell beneath is moued for thee, to meete thee at thy comming, raysing vp the dead for thee, euen all the Princes of the earth, and hath raysed from their thrones all the kings of the na∣tions. All they shall crie, and say vnto thee, art thou become weake al∣so, as we? Art thou become like vnto vs? Thy pompe is brought down to the graue, and the sound of thy viols: the worme is spred vnder thee, and the wormes couer thee. How art thou fallen from Heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? and cut downe to the ground, which diddest cast lots vpon the nations? &c.

Notes

• * 1.1

  An amplifica∣tion of the iudgement of God against the Chaldeans.