A69234:1033
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 thus the land mourned: first when as it was wasted by Tilgath-Pilneeser King of Assyria, who led away two Tribes and a half captive as appeareth, 1. Chron. 5. 26. 1but much more when as it was utterly overthrown and destroyed by Salmaneser, of which we may read, 2. Kings. 172
And thus the land mourned: first when as it was wasted by Tilgath-Pilneeser King of Assiria, who led away two Tribes and a halfe captiue as appeareth, 1. Chron. 5. 26. 1but much more when as it was vtterly ouerthowne and destroyed by Salmaneser, of which wee may read, 2. Kings. 172
Secondly it is said, that every one that dwelleth in the land shall be cut off, the word is shall languish, or faint through weakness; whereby he signifieth that howsoever the people would not mourn for sin, yet the Lord would make them mourn under his punishments, and that so greatly, that they should even languish and faint in their sorrow and heaviness, having no appearance of any comfort.