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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Title:	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.
Print source:	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. Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?, Stockwood, John, d. 1610, [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]
Alternate titles:	Commentarii in prophetas minores. English. Fruitfull commentarie upon the twelve small prophets.
Notes:	A translation of: Commentarii in prophetas minores. "Legat pr[inted]. quires [par.], A-I; Orwin the rest"--STC. Includes index. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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The order of the XII. small Prophets, as they are placed in this booke. And here is added where, or in what page they are to be found.

To the no lesse vertuous then honourable Personages HENRIE Earle of Huntindon, &c. and the Lady KATHARINE his deare and welbeloued wife, Countesse of the same, &c. Iohn Stockwood, their humbly de∣uoted poore seruant wisheth all plentiful encrease of heauen∣ly and earthly graces of his holy Spirit, as may be most for God his glorie, and the good and welfare of his Church in this life present, and in the life hereafter, the onely and indeede true life perfect consummation of all heauenly ioyes and happines in Christ our Sauiour.

To the courteous and Chri∣stian Reader.

TO HIS VERY SINGV∣lar good Friend the Right VVorshipfull, AND FOR MANY VERTVES MOST renowmed M. Antony Bacon, sonne of the most Noble and Honourable Syr Nicholas Bacon Chauncelour of England.

A TABLE OF THE CHIEFE FI∣gures of Rhetoricke mentioned in this Treatise.

FORE-NOTES BY the way of a preface, vpon the xii. small Prophets, for the better understanding of the same.

CAP. I. Of the sundry names, by the which the Prophets have beene called.

CAP. II. What Prophesie generally is?

CAP. III. How diverse and sundry sortes there are of prophesie generally taken.

CHAP. 4. Of the signification of this word prophesie, as it is vsed in the holy Scriptures.

CHAP. 5. Of the dubble signification of the word prophesie, as it is vsed in the holy Scriptures.

CAP. 6. Of Prophesie, which is the expounding of holy Scripture, and how it differeth from the gift of tongues.

CAP. 7. Of godly Prophesie, which is a foretelling of things to come, and how it differeth from the prophesies of the Gentiles, or Heathen.

CHAP. 8. Of sundrie kindes of godly Prophets.

CAP. 9. Of the true notes and markes of the godly and true Prophets.

CAP. 10. When the godly and true Prophets of God tooke their beginning. And likewise when they ceased or ended in the Church.

CHAP. 11. Of the godly Prophets of the old Testament, and of their order and succession of following one another.

CAP. 12. How the writings of the godly Prophets have beene gathered together.

CAP. 13. Of those things vvhich ought to be especially observed or mar∣ked in the expounding of the writings of these prophets of the old Testament.

OVT OF EPIPHA∣nius his booke of the life of the PROPHETS.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Oseas.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Amos.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Micheas.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Iohel.

The life and death of the Prophet Abdiu.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Ionas.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Nahum.

The life and death of the Prophet Abacuk.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Sophonias.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Aggeus.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Zacharias.

The lyfe and death of the Prophet Malachias.

OVT OF THE PREFACE of Ierome vpon Ioel.

Ex Isidori Etymologicôn lib. 7. cap. de Prophetis.

THE WORLD FROM THE CREATION vntill the comming of Christ▪ diuided into seuen ages, and what Prophets of name flourished in euery one of them, as more at large in the fore-notes appeareth.

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A COMMENTA∣rie of Lambertus Danaeus vpon the Prophet Ioel.

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A Commentarie of Lambert Danaeus vpon the Prophet Amos.

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A Commentary of Lambertus Danaeus vpon the Prophet Oseas.

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CAP. 14.

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The Commentary of Lambertus Da∣naeus vpon the Prophet Micheas.

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CAP. 2.

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The Commentary of Lambertus Da∣naeus vpon the Prophet Nahum.

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The Commentary of Lambertus Da∣naeus vpon the Prophet Joel.

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The Commentary of Lambertus Da∣naeus vpon the Prophet Sophonias.

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The Commentary of Lambertus Da∣naeus vpon the Prophet Abdias.

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The Commentary of Lambertus Da∣naeus, vpon the Prophet Habacuck.

CAP. 1. The argument.

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The Commentary of Lambertus Da∣naeus vpon the Prophet Aggaeus.

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The Commentary of Lambertus Da∣naeus, vpon the Prophet Zacharias.

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The Commentary of Lambertus Da∣naeus, vpon the Prophet Malachias.

The Argument.

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The table.