A69234:1032
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 judgement it self is destruction and desolation, by war & famine, whereby the inhabitants of the land should be destroyed and swept away, and all the goodly ornaments of the earth, as the pleasant Orchards & gardens, the fruitful ⟨p. 109⟩fields and vineyards, should be utterly wasted and spoiled: so that now the good mother earth should like Rachel spend her time in mourning for her children, because they were not, and like a desolate captive spoiled of all her riches and precious ornaments lament her passed loss and present misery. The meaning therefore of these words is this, that the earth shall become barren and fruitless, and and shall be stripped and spoiled of all her inhabitants, and so become a vast and desolate wilderness, neither inhabited by men, nor adorned with her beautiful fruits, as it were with her princely coat of diverse colours: for as the earth which is inhabited by a flourishing people, and decked and adorned with her plenteous fruits, is said to rejoice laugh and sing, Psal. 96 12. Let the field be joyful and all that is 1in it, let the trees of the wood then rejoice. Unto which the Prophet Isaiah alludeth Chap. 35. 1. 2. The wast ground shall 2be glad and flourish as a Rose. It shall flourish abundantly and shall greatly rejoice. So it is said to mourn and weep when it is dis-peopled, and laid wast & desolate, like a wilderness. So Isaiah 33. 9. The earth mourneth and fainteth, Lebanon is ashamed and hewen down, Sharon is like a wilderness &c. Jer. 34. 27. 28. The whole land shall be desolate, therefore shall the earth mourn. Joel. 1. 10. The field is wasted, the land mourneth 4for the corn is destroyed &c.