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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.
Secondly, it teacheth all with patience to hear the word 1of admonition and reprehension, when they offend; and not only patiently, but also thankfully; seeing it is a means to restrain from us Gods wrath & heavy judgements. It is a potion, which howsoever it is bitter, yet it helpeth to purge away the gross humours of sin, and preserveth from eternal death: It is a corrosive indeed, but yet profitable, because it draweth out the core of our corruptions: It may be displeasant at first, when we are awaked out of the sweet sleep of carnal security, but we shall have little cause to be offended with him that hath roused us up seeing this sleep endeth in death.
Secondly, it teacheth all with patience to heare the word 1of admonion and reprehension, when they offend; and not onely patiently, but also thankfully; seeing it is a meanes to restraine from vs Gods wrath & heauie judgements. It is a potion, which howsoeuer it is bitter, yet it helpeth to purge away the grose humours of sinne, and preserueth from eternall death: It is a corrasiue indeed, but yet profitable, because it draweth out the core of our corruptions: It may bee displeasant at first, when we are awaked out of the sweet sleep of carnall securitie, but wee shall haue little cause to be offended with him that hath rouzed vs vp seeing this sleepe endeth in death.
- 1We must patiently hear the word of reprehension.We must patiently heare the word of reprehension.
Thirdly, it showeth the extreme folly of those who rage 1against Gods Ministers, when they reprove and reprehend them for their sins, thinking themselves never worse, then when they are under the censure of the word, and never better at ease, then when they may sleep securely in their sins without reproof. Such are sick of the spiritual Lethargy, they delight in this easy sleep that bringeth death, and cannot endure to be roused up, though it be the only means to preserve life and recover health. And howsoever they seem so wise in their own conceits that they need no admonition,