The _Proverbs_, being a collection of wise and godly sayings, partly of Solomon, partly of Agur, the son of Jakeh, and partly of the mother of king Lemuel, cannot probably be thought to have been collected by Solomon, rather than by Agur, or the mother of Lemuel; and that, though the sentences be theirs, yet the collection or compiling them into this one book, was the work of some other godly man, that lived after them all. [Sidenote: Ecclesiastes and the Canticles.] The books of _Ecclesiastes_ and the _Canticles_ have nothing that was not Solomon’s, except it be the titles, or inscriptions. For _The Words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem_; and, _The Song of Songs_, which is Solomon’s, seem to have been made for distinction’s sake, then, when the Books of Scripture were gathered into one body of the law; to the end, that not the doctrine only, but the authors also might be extant. [Sidenote: Prophets.] Of the prophets, the most ancient, are Zephaniah, Jonah, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, and Michah, who lived in the time of Amaziah and Azariah, otherwise Ozias, kings of Judah. But the book of Jonah is not properly a register of his prophecy; for that is contained in these few words, _Forty days and Niniveh shall be destroyed_; but a history or narration of his frowardness and disputing God’s commandments; so that there is small probability he should be the author, seeing he is the subject of it. But the book of _Amos_ is his prophecy. Jeremiah, Obadiah, Nahum, and Habakkuk prophecied in the time of Josiah. Ezekiel, Daniel, Haggai, and Zechariah, in the captivity.