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Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text…Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text…
Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text is expounded and cleared, and such profitable instructions observed, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holy Scripture, and are fit for these times. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods word.Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text is exponded and cleered, and such profitable instructions obserued, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holie Scripture, and are fit for these times. By Iohn Dovvname Bacheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston and T. East for William Welby, 1608
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Come from the theft of the hart, to the theft which is in 1fact, both through violence and deceit, and we shall find our selves entered into an Ocean without either bottom or end: for where amongst any civill people was ever seen the like tyrannical oppression, whereby the rich and mighty eat up the weak and needy as the greater fishes devour the less? when was there ever heard of the like exactions, impositions, enhancement of rents to such unreasonable rates, that poor men can not with the sweat of their brows earn their bread? such delaying, if not perverting of justice for friendship and respect of persons? In what age of the world was there such corruption in courts and Offices, such enhancing of fees, such extortion and intolerable pilling, prowling and bribing? When did ever the Lawyers so flourish by the common spoil, by deceit and impostures, protractions of suites, defending injury and falsehood, betraying the cause of the innocent, like thieves contending one with another in counterfeit strife, who shall have the true mans purse.
Come from the theft of the hart, to the theft which is in 1fact, both through violence and deceipt, and we shal find our selues entred into an Ocean without eyther bottome or end: for where amongst any ciuill people was euer seene the like tyrannicall oppression, whereby the rich and mighty eate vp the weake and needy as the greater fishes deuoure the lesse? when was there euer heard of the like exactions, impositions, inhaunsement of rents to such vnreasonable rates, that poore men can not with the sweat of their browes earne their bread? such delaying, if not peruerting of justice for friendship and respect of persons? In what age of the world was there such corruption in courts and Offices, such inhaunsing of fees, such extortion and intollerable pilling, proling and bribing? When did euer the Lawyers so flourish by the common spoyle, by deceipt and impostures, protractions of suites, defending injury and fashood, betraying the cause of the innocent, like theeues contending one with another in counterfaite strife, who shall haue the true mans purse.
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