A69234:1046
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.
So it is said in this place, that the land it self mourned, and that the beasts, birds and fishes bore their part in this ⟨p. 114⟩sorrowful song; but the Inhabitants of the Land are said only to have languished under the burden of their miseries, and nothing is said of any sorrow or mourning under the heavy burden of their sin. The like example we have 1in Cain. Gen. 4. 13. In Pharaoh. Exod. 8. 8. 15. In Saul, Jeroboam. 1 King. 13. 6. 33. And in the people of the Jews. Mat. 11. 16. 17. and 23. 37. But I shall not need to look far for examples to illustrate this point, seeing our own experience doth too manifestly prove it: for howsoever like Bull-rushes we have hanged down our heads, whilst the storm of Gods judgements, did make us bend and stoop, yet we are presently ready to walk under the burden of our sins, with stiff and stretched out necks, when we see that the storm of Gods fury is a little overblown.
So it is sayd in this place, that the land it selfe mourned, and that the beasts, birds and fishes bore their part in this ⟨p. 114⟩sorrowfull song; but the Inhabitants of the Land are sayde onely to haue languished vnder the burthen of their miseries, and nothing is said of any sorrow or mourning vnder the heauie burthen of their sinne. The like example we haue 1in Cain. Gen. 4. 13. In Pharaoh. Exod. 8. 8. 15. In Saul, Ieroboam.