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. 16.

When I heard, my bellie trembled: my lips shooke at the voyce: rottennes entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe, that I might rest in the day of trouble: for when he commeth vp vnto the people he shall destroy them.

* 1.1THe third part of this prayer, wherein the Prophet promiseth vnto himselfe, and vnto all other the true godlie, that hee shall be heard most assuredly, in so much that hee prophesieth, that at what time the Lord shall come vp to destroy the Chaldeans, euen then the whole church among the Chaldeans themselues, and in

such calamitie or miserie shal be sure and safe. Albeit that the same at that time shall not be without great feare and trembling, both for that it shall then see so wonderfull iudgements of God: and also for that she her selfe shall be in the middest of so great dan∣ger at that time.* 1.2 This prophesie was fulfilled, when as Cyrus ha∣uing taken Babylon, gaue commandement, that no Iewes, or any that spake the Syrian tongue, should bee hurt, as Xenophon tea∣cheth. And this feare, wherewith the church shall bee then sha∣ken, and the which the Prophet had conceiued of the reuealing vnto him of so great miserie,* 1.3 is hereby the way of an Hyperbole or excessiue speech described or set out by sundry effects, the which men being strooken into an vnmeasurable or surpassing feare do feele, and in very deed and truth haue experience and triall of, to wit the naturall heate departing and leauing the members, that the godly may throughlie conceiue the iudgements of God, and when as the thing it selfe should come to passe, might the more easilie acknowledge it to haue beene foretold long time before.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The third part of this prayer, promising help and deliue∣rance vnto the Church.
• * 1.2

  The comman∣dement of Cy∣rus for the sa∣fetie of the Iewes.
• * 1.3

  What the fi∣gure Hyperbo∣le is, see Haba∣c••c cap. 2. v. 11.