A69234:1030
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.
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.
The punishment it self is first expressed, and then amplified, it is expressed in two borrowed speeches; the first in these words, the land shall mourn: As though he should say, because the people will not mourn for their sins, even the land it self shall mourn, and as it were sigh & groan under the heavy burden of my punishments. So that hereby he implieth their stubborn rebellion, impenitency, and hardness of hart, in that the brute and senseless earth would be sooner affected and touched with the feeling of Gods judgements, then the more senseless inhabitants; and also the greatness of the punishment, which should be so sharp that it would give sense to the senseless creatures.
The punishment it selfe is first expressed, and then amplified, it is expressed in two borrowed speaches; the first in these words, the land shall mourne: As though he should say, because the people will not mourne for their sinnes, euen the land it selfe shall mourne, and as it were sigh & groane vnder the heauy burthen of my punishments. So that hereby hee implyeth their stubberne rebellion, impenitencie, and hardnesse of hart, in that the brute and senseles earth would bee sooner affected and touched with the feeling of Gods judgements, then the more senselesse inhabitants; and also the greatnesse of the punishment, which should be so sharpe that it would giue sense to the senseles creatures.