A69234:1077
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.
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.
It is further said, that their Prophets should fall with them; by which wee are not to vnderstand their true Prophets, who admonished them of their sinnes and so becomming guiltlesse of their transgressions saued their owne soules, and were not pertakers with them in their punishments; but their false and flattering Prophets, who soothed them in their sins, and sowed cushions vnder their elbowes that they might more securely goe on in their wickednesse. And here also he vseth the singular number indefinitely, for the greater emphasis, as though hee should say howsoeuer diuers may thinke that they shalbe exempted in the common punishment by their wit, learning, pollicie, authoritie, or fauour 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 accessarie to their sins bee pertakers in their punishments.
Secondly he saith, that he will destroy their mother, whereby we are to understand the whole Common-wealth Synagogue, and Church of the Jews; which the Lord threateneth so to over-turn and ruinate, that there should not remain so much as an outward face of a kingdom, nor the glorious title of the Church, wherein they so much boasted: as though he should say, my purpose is to destroy all and some; particular persons, and the whole state both of church and common-wealth, so as I will not leave so much as your