A69234:1048
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.
Secondly, it serveth for the reproof of carnal worldlings, who securely go on in their sins, foolishly imagining that they may repent when they list, and so receive their pardon from God: but such are to know that as it is a work of greatest necessity, so also of greatest difficulty, for if the Lord leave them to their own hardness of hart, as he justly may, seeing they have abused his grace to wantonness, and his mercy and long suffering to impenitency; well may they languish under punishment, yet they shall be further off from true repentance and unfeigned mourning for their sins, then the senseless earth or brutish Creatures.
Secondly, it serueth for the reproofe of carnall worldlings, who securely goe on in their sinnes, foolishly imagining that they may repent when they list, and so receiue their pardon from God: but such are to know that as it is a worke of greatest necessity, so also of greatest difficultie, for if the Lord leaue them to their owne hardnesse of hart, as he justly may, seeing they haue abused his grace to wantonnesse, and his mercy and long suffering to impenitencie; well may they languish vnder punishment, yet they shall bee further off from true repentance and vnfayned mourning for their sinnes, then the senselesse earth or brutish Creatures.
Thirdly, we are to observe, that the sin of man is not ⟨p. 115⟩only hurtful and pernicious to himself, but even to the 1whole earth, and all the Creatures therein contained. In the Creation the Lord blessed the earth and her Inhabitants, but sin turned this blessing into a curse. Gen. 3. 17. Gods 2blessing made it fruitful, but mans sin made it barren, and in stead of Corn, Wine and Oil, caused it to bring forth Thorns and Thistles, if it be not, as it were watered with mans sweat. Verse. 18. 19. It brought a general Deluge,