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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 use of this doctrine is: first, to admonish us, that when we see the miseries of any of the poor Creatures, as the barrenness of the earth, the toil, sickness and manifold infirmities of the beasts, &c. we be thereby put in remembrance of our sins, and be moved to bewail them, as being the cause not only of our own, but also of all the creatures misery.
The vse of this doctrine is: first, to admonish vs, that when wee see the miseries of any of the poore Creatures, as the barrennesse of the earth, the toyle, sicknesse and manifold infirmities of the beasts, &c. we be thereby put in remembrance of our sinnes, and be moued to bewayle them, as being the cause not onely of our owne, but also of all the creatures miserie.
Secondly, it serveth to reprove those, who abuse the poor creatures with tyrannical cruelty, and are so far from pitying ⟨p. 116⟩them, in those miseries which our sins have inflicted upon them, that they make seven-fold greater the heavy burden of their evils, through their barbarous usage of them; like hard-hearted and merciless Lords, who seeing their servant adjudged to death for their treasons, in stead of pitying his punishment play themselves the executioner, in causing him to dye by exquisite torments, &c.
Secondly, it serueth to reproue those, who abuse the poore creatures with tyrannical crueltie, and are so far from pitying ⟨p. 116⟩them, in those miseries which our sinnes haue inflicted vpon them, that they make seauen-fould greater the heauy burthen of their euils, through their barbarous vsage of them; like hard-harted and mercilesse Lords, who seeing their seruant adjudged to death for their treasons, in stead of pitying his punishment play themselues the executioner, in causing him to dye by exquisite torments, &c.