Among many other Prophets that God raised up to admonish the Israelites of his plagues for their wickedness and idolatrie, he stirred up Amós, who was an herdman or shepherd of a poor towne, and gave him both knowledge and constancie to reprove all estates and degrees, and to denounce God’s horrible judgements against them, except they did in time repent: shewing them, that if God spare not the other nacions about them, who had lived as it were in ignorance of God in respect of them, but for their sins wil punish them, that they could look for nothing, but an horrible destruction, except they turned to the Lord by unfained repentance. And finally, he comforteth the godlie with hope of the comming of the Messiáh, by whom they should have perfite deliverance and salvacion.