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John Trapp on Amos 1:14

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Amos1:14

Verſe 14. But I will kindle a fire &c.] with mine own hands (not only ſend a fire, as before verſe. 10.12.) as Charles 5. Emperour of Germany, Parei medul. 1. hiſt. prof. pag. 907. (when it was told him how that Farneſius the Popes Generall had raviſhed certain Ladies) brake out into theſe hot words: If I had the villaine here, I would kill him with mine own hands: neither was he ever heard to ſpeak any thing with ſo great anger, in all his dayes.

with ſhooting in the day of battle] Cum clangore, velululatu with noiſe of trumpets and ſouldiers, ſo terrible, haply, as that in the bloody fight betwixt the great Turk Amurath 3. and Lazarus Deſpot of Servia: where the noiſe was ſo great,Turk: hiſt. 300. that the wild beaſts in the mountains ſtood aſtonied, and the birds fell to the earth amazed thereat.

with a tempeſt] i. e. with incredible ſwiftneſſe, and all on the ſudden: and ſo the more terrible, becauſe impetuous.

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