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A86428	The holy lives of God's prophets. By J.H.	Hoddesdon, John, fl. 1650.	1653 (1653)	Wing H2294; Thomason E1493_1; ESTC R208521	77,735	134

Law those two I Iders were punished with death By which Iudgement Daniel afterwards obtained great renowne and authority amongst the people God told him many things by Gabriel the Angel concerning the Kings of Persia-Greece and Egypt also concerning the Kingdome of Christ the restitution of Jerusalem and the bringing back of the Jewes which are set downe in the booke which by his name is reckoned amongst those of the Bible He died at Babylon and was buried in the Kings Cave as Epiphanius writeth who saith also that his sepulchre in his time was very well knowne to all Habbakkuk the Prophet CHAP. XXIX HAbbakkuk the Prophet was of the Country of Bezzocherene of the Tribe of Simeon as Epiphanius saith and he fled having left his Country into Ostracina a country of the Ismaelites when he heard that Nebuchadonosor came with a mighty Army to destroy the City Hierusalem There he dwelt untill he was certified that the Chaldees having taken and demolished the City were returned with spoiles and poisoners into their Country and the rest of the Jews amongst whom was Hieremias and Baruch were gone to dwell in Egypt as I have exprest in their life for than he returned into his Country After his returne in what yeare it is uncertaine he had sown some Barly and when the harvest came had let it out to reapers to be cut down and bound up in sheaves And when he carried them their Dinner an Angell of God appearing unto him bad him carry it to Daniel who was in the Lions Den in Babylon He made answer to the Angell that he had never seen Babylon and that he did not know the Den whereupon he carried him by the haire of his head and set him by the mouth of the Den calling Daniel by name from the mouth of the Den he told him of the Dinner that God sent him whereupon Daniel blessing God who was not unmindfull of them that trusted in him and having given him thankes for that benefit had taken the pottage and the bread sopt in it out of Habbakkuks hand the Angel of God in a moment of time set him againe in the same place There be some that affirme Epiphanius for one that he who knew that thing would be so before he was carried thither did tell his servants aforehand that he should go a great way off and come againe presently but if he should be too long away they should get the reapers some meat and that he came againe that very day and came in amongst the Reapers just as they were at their supper In the holy Bible there is reckoned a very little book intituled by his name In the beginning of the book he expostulates with God more earnestly why the wicked should overcome and afflict the Godly but after God had foretold of the comming of Christ who should free and preserve the good he became more patient and concludes with prayers which do shew the vertue and power of Christ He died in Judaea two yeares before the Jewes were brought back from Caldaea the fifteenth of January as Epiphanius saith and his body by Gods discovery was found when Arcadius was Emperour Sophonias the Prophet CHAP. XXX SOphonias the Prophet was the son of Cushi of the Tribe of Simeon He prophesied what is written in the book of holy Scripture which is called by his name when Josias the son of Amon was King of Judah First he terrifieth and afterwards comforreth he foretelleth the Captivity of the Jews for the wickednesses which he reckons up first of all and then of the Princes and Judges and for terrors sake he cals the day by such names as use to strike terror into men He foretels also the destruction of many Nations as of the Ethiopians Assyrians Moabites and Philistines In the latter end of his book he treats of the comming and resurrection of Christ and the conversion of the Centiles unto him He dyed and was buried alone in his owne country as Epiphanius saith Aggaeus the Prophet CHAP. XXXI AGgaeus at Gods Commandement underwent he duty of a Prophet when he was but a very young man in the second yeare of Darius Hystaspes first unto Zorobabell the sonne of Salathiel and Jesus the sonne Josedec the Priest and afterwards unto the Priests The occasion of his prophesie was this When in the first yeare of King Cyrus the people of the Jewes who were at his Command brought back againe to Hierusalem to build the Temple of God said that the time of building was not yet come God sent Aggaeus to tell Zorobabell the governour and Jesus the sonne of Jozedec that the people spake falsely that the time of building Gods house was not yet come seeing it was come and that for that reason because the building was omitted what they had sowne in great abundance had afforded slender profit the raine being withheld from it And that therefore they should diligently begin and dispatch the work These two men liked well of this word of Aggaeus or rather of God and by their meanes all the people And when the work was begun in the twentie fourth day of the sixth month of that same yeare hee was againe sent to these two whom I spoke of and to the rest of the people First to exhort these two to goe on because God would helpe them and then to tell them all that that new Temple should exceed the old one in glory because of Gods comming which was at hand In the twenty fourth day of the ninth month he was sent again to tell them having wrested a confession from the Priests by a simile and an induction that those gifts were not very welcome and acceptable which they brought to God in the Temple and that the worke of laying the foundation of the Temple was so pleasing to him that for the future he would increase their come Being sent againe the same day under the name of Zorobabell he foretold the comming and glory of Christ This Aggaeus at Gods bidding did not onely tell Zorobabel and Jesus the Priest that the time of building the Temple was come but also when they believed him he helped them in finishing the worke not onely as a workeman but also by a new kinde of singing for there he and Zacharias the Prophet are said to have first sung an Hallelujah which being an Hebrew word signifieth the same that praise yee the Lord. Therefore the hymne and praise of Aggaeus and Zacharias is called Hallelujah he died at that same place and was buried with honour by the Sepulchres of the Priests Zacharias the Prophet CHAP. XXXII ZAcharias the Prophet was the sonne of Barachias who was the sonne of Addon He began to prophesie the same yeare that Aggaeus that is in the second yeare of Darius the King but in the eighth month whereas he beganne the first day of the sixth month But he prophesied longer then he and to more For he performed the Office of a Prophet in the fourth

Take my brethren the Prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience Behold wee count them happy which endure ye have heard of the patience of Job etc. James 5.10.11 THE HOLY LIVES OF GOD'S PROPHETS By J. H. LONDON Printed for Wil Hope at the blew Anchor on the North side of the Royall Exchange 1654. To his worthily much Honoured Kinsman George Smith Esq Most worthy SIR SVch and so extraordinary are your Favours and so freely conferr'd upon me that I must needs acknowledge I am in a strict manner oblig'd to all opportunities of humble Gratitude Whereupon not without some praemeditation I have thought sit to take this and have adventured to publish to the world the Lives of these HOLY MEN under your Patronage who indeed for a kind of sympathy between you and them doe the rather owne you for their Patron For if you please but seriously to peruse them you may in many things read your selfe and find wherein you have made them the pious Presidents of your own good Works Of those as you well know my selfe have had no little experience a Theame too on which I might well inlarge my selfe but indeed such is my unhappinesse I want those abilities either by more excellent Art of Language to expresse them or any other way of service or respects to testifie sufficient thankefulnesse What need I then adde more seeing this little already said though but meane and according to my duty is I am confident above your expectation so little doe you delight in the resitall of your kindnesses or desire they should bee thus brought to your Remembrance your expectations as in a sutablenesse to your Christian Vertues await higher Rewards with those Pious Men before mentioned that as you have endeavoured to imitate their Lives so you may also partake with them in their Eternall Happinesse for the fruition whereof hee shall daily pray who in all duty subscribes himselfe Sir Yours most humbly observant J. H. Of the Lives and Noble Acts of Gods Prophets The Life of the Prophet JOB CHAPTER I. Section 1. THe Prophet Job who was also called Jobad as the seventy Interpreters relate in the end of the Book of Job or that book which is writ concerning Job was head of the fifth Family from Abraham as the same Interpreters deliver in the same place For Abraham begat Isaac Isaac Esau Esau Zara of his wife Basemath the daughter of Ishmael Zara Jobad who also is Job Sect. 2. This man although he lived amongst wicked and lewd people and dwelt in that Country called A●…sotis or Hus in the borders of Idumaea yet was he not infected with any vice or lewdnesse from them but even from his childhood he eschewed vice and followed vertue with that resolution of spirit that he would never do otherwise than he ought even when he had lost all those things which mon esteeme most deare his Fotranes and Children and his whole body was so pestered with sores that his very friends could not endure to looke upon him which things because they be so excellent and make for his greater commendation than if he had moderately behaved himselfe only in prosperity I resolve to declare all severally that all men in adversity and misery may have a notable example set before them of this man Sect. 3. And because it is no great matter of praise nor any such rare vertue for a man to lose but an indifferent Estate and to beare out that misfortune gallantly we must understand this that Iob was no meane person nor one that had but a poore or slender Fortune for he was the second King of the Land of Edom inasmuch as he succeeded in the roome of Bela or Balach the first King And he was very rich for those times wherein mens wealth consisted much in flocks and heards it is therefore recorded in the Scriptures which mention that he was a wealthy person how that he had seven thousand Sheepe three thousand Camels five hundred yoake of Oxen and five hundred she Asses and a very great Family Now before I tell by what meanes all these things were taken from him and with what mind he bare the losse of them I will relate how he demeaned himselfe in his prosperity Sect. 4. Though he was a King and a Prince as I have said and one that had such a great Estate yet did he never misuse his Soveraignty or Authority to the injury of his Friends or Strangers like a proud man nor his goods to the satisfying of his lusts for in judgement he decided matters with such equity that when he went to the Gate of the City and had his seat prepared him in the Court The Courts were kept in the Gates of the Cities all that heard and saw him forasmuch as the Aged stood up to him and the Princes and Nobles forbore out of reverence to speake in his presence thought him happy and gave witnesse to him that he delivered the poore which cried and the fatherlesse which had none to help them the Cause which he understood not he searched out diligently lest if he should have passed sentence whilst the cause was unknown he might both have done wrong to another man and dishonour to himselfe Sect. 5. And how he behaved himselfe towards his equals or betters either in Sutes and Controversies which he had with them or in other dealings we may hence conceive in that he never refused a triall with his man or maid servant if at any time they would go to law with him besides in his whole life he was so full of liberality and pitty which had grown up with him from his infancy that he never eate a piece of bread alone without the fatherlesse he never denied poore people what they requested he never wearied out the people with delays he never saw men perish for lack of cloathing or any poor man to be without a covering Lastly he never suffered a stranger to tarry without doors but was willing to have his house lie alwayes open to the traveller so that he was an eye to the blinde a foot to to the lame a father to the poor which though they be great matters yet shall we cease to wonder at them if we doe but consider that contempt of riches which was in him For he neither placed his strength or confidence and hope in gold nor did he rejoyce in much wealth when he had got it Sect. 6. Let me now set forth his other vertues He did not love his friends onely but his foes also and enemies so as that he never rejoyced at their adversity he never spake against them he was so modest and chast that if ever woman had deceived his heart or if ever he had laid waite at his neighhours doore he did not refuse that his wife should be false to his bed ch 31. And of such integrity of heart such innocency of life and