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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.
Yea but it is not said here, that the people forbid the Prophet to admonish and rebuke them, but the Lord himself. I answer, the Lord in his word is so far from forbidding these duties of admonition and reprehension, that he necessarily requires them, unless it be when as the sinner is so desperately resolved to continue in his wickedness that he hateth admonition, and is ready to revenge it (as though it were an injury) upon him who doth admonish him. Of such the Lord speaketh Ezech. 3. 26. I will make thy tongue 1cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them as a man that rebuketh, for they are a rebellious house. And our Saviour Christ Mat. 7. 6. Give ye not 2that which is holy to dogs, &c. And such were this people of whom the Lord saith; Yet let none rebuke nor reprove another. As though he should have said; although their sins are so many and heinous, that they deserve continual ⟨p. 118⟩reproof and reprehension, yet let no man rebuke them, seeing it is to no purpose, they being so desperately given over to all wickedness, that they are become altogether impatient of any reproof.
Yea but it is not said here, that the people forbid the Prophet to admonish and rebuke them, but the Lord himselfe. I answere, the Lord in his word is so farre from forbidding these duties of admonition and reprehension, that hee necessarily requires them, vnlesse it be when as the sinner is so desperately resolued to continue in his wickednesse that he hateth admonition, and is ready to reuenge it (as though it were an injurie) vpon him who doth admonish him. Of such the Lord speaketh Ezech. 3. 26. I will make thy tongue 1cleaue to the roofe of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumbe, and shalt not be to them as a man that rebuketh, for they are a rebellious house. And our Sauiour Christ