A69234:1063
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 hereof serveth first to persuade all that are themselves 1religious, that they be ready to reprove and admonish all their brethren of their sins, if they see any hope of reformation; for hereby they shall perform a work most charitable in stopping them in their course of sin, whereby they incur Gods wrath, and run headlong to their own perdition, and this duty is enjoined. Leu. 19. 17. 2Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but thou shalt plainly rebuke him and not suffer him to sinne. Jam. 5. 19. 20. 3Which who so performs shall be blessed. Pro. 14. 25. Unto 4him that rebuketh the sinner, shall be pleasure, and upon them shall come the blessing of goodness.
The vse hereof serueth first to perswade all that are themselues 1religious, that they be ready to reproue and admonish all their brethren of their sinnes, if they see any hope of reformation; for hereby they shall performe a worke most charitable in stopping them in their course of sinne, whereby they incurre Gods wrath, and runne headlong to their owne perdition, and this duetie is injoyned. Leu. 19. 17. 2Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but thou shalt plainely rebuke him and not suffer him to sinne. Iam. 5. 19. 20. 3