A69234:1029
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.
The punishment it self here threatened, is the utter destruction and desolation of the land, by war and the usual companion thereof dearth and famine; the which is most lively and emphatically expressed in divers metaphorical and hyperbolical speeches, the which I will expound as they lye in order.
The punishment it selfe here threatned, is the vtter destruction and desolation of the land, by warre and the vsuall companion thereof dearth and famine; the which is most liuely and emphatically expressed in diuers metaphoricall and hyperbolicall speeches, the which I will expound as they lye in order.
And first here is expressed the cause of their punishment, then the punishment it self; the cause of their punishment, in this word, Therefore, that is, because all manner of sin both of omission and commission doth abound in the land, and the people is desperately resolved to rush into all manner of wickedness, notwithstanding all those means which I have used to reclaim them, and even are now grown to a custom and habit of sinning; therefore I will forbear them no longer, seeing they give no hope of their reformation, but will presently execute my fearful judgements amongst them, till they be utterly destroyed.
And first here is expressed the cause of their punishment, then the punishment it selfe; the cause of their punishment, in this word, Therefore, that is, because all manner of sinne both of omission and commission doth abound in the land, and the people is desperately resolued to rush into all manner of wickednesse, notwithstanding all those meanes which I haue vsed to reclaime them, and euen are now growne to a custome and habite of sinning; therefore I will forbeare them no longer, seeing they giue no hope of their reformation, but will presently execute my fearefull judgements amongst them, till they be vtterly destroyed.