A69234:1076
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.
Thirdly, the persons against whom these punishments are threatened, are first more distinctly specified, and after comprised in one general sum. They are specified whereas he saith that both people and Prophets should thus fall. The people are expressed in this word Thou: where he ⟨p. 126⟩maketh an Apostrophe and conversion of his speech to the people, and having spoken of them in the former Verse, in the third person, he now useth the second for the greater emphasis, that he might point them out who were marked by God unto punishment, and the singular number as though he would cull them out man by man. And this was just with God that this people who wilfully shut their eyes against the light of Gods truth, and despised his faithful servants admonishing them, should be given up of God to a reprobate sense, to follow the delusions of false Prophets, and to walk in their own wicked ways, until they fell into the pit of destruction.
Thirdly, the persons against whom these punishments are threatned, are first more distinctly specified, and after comprised in one generall summe. They are specified whereas he saith that both people and Prophets should thus fall. The people are expressed in this word Thou: where he ⟨p. 126⟩maketh an Apostrophe and conuersion of his speach to the people, and hauing spoken of them in the former Verse, in the third person, hee now vseth the second for the greater emphasis, that hee might point them out who were marked by God vnto punishment, and the singular number as though hee would cull them out man by man. And this was just with God that this people who wilfully shut their eyes against the light of Gods truth, and despised his faithfull seruants admonishing them, should be giuen vp of God to a reprobate sense, to follow the delusions of false Prophets, and to walke in their owne wicked wayes, vntill they fell into the pit of destruction.
It is further said, that their Prophets should fall with them; by which we are not to understand their true Prophets, who admonished them of their sins and so becoming guiltless of their transgressions saved their own souls, and were not partakers with them in their punishments; but their false and flattering Prophets, who soothed them in their sins, and sowed cushions under their elbows that they might more securely go on in their wickedness. And here also he useth the singular number indefinitely, for the greater emphasis, as though he should say howsoever divers may think that they shall be exempted in the common punishment by their wit, learning, policy, authority, or favour with the people, yet not one of them shall escape. And this was just with God that the false Prophets who had seduced the people should being accessory to their sins be partakers in their punishments.