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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.
And this is the meaning of the words. The Doctrines The doctrines. which arise out of them are these: First, we may observe that 1those who cannot endure to be admonished of their faults, nor reproved for their sins by Gods true Prophets: but rather desire to be soothed and flattered in their wicked ⟨p. 128⟩ways, by false and lying seducers, shall fall into the pit of Gods fearful judgements. So it is said. Prou. 29. 1. A man 2that hardeneth his neck when he is rebuked, shall suddenly be destroyed, and cannot be cured. Examples hereof we have in 3Ahab. 1 King. 22. 26. 27. 34. In Amaziah. 2 Chron. 25. 15. 16. 23. 27. In the people of Israel. Isaiah. 30. 10. 13. And in the limbs of Antichrist. 2 Thes. 2. 11. The reason hereof is manifest, for admonition and reprehension are the means to bring the sinner to repentance, & repentance is the principal means to prevent Gods judgements: those therefore who refuse the means of amendment, continue obstinately in their sins, and so remain continually liable to deserved punishments. Gods Ministers are the spiritual Physicians, who cure those who are diseased with sin, by ministering unto them the wholesome preservatives of admonition, and the bitter potions of reprehension & rebuke: If therefore these medicines be applied, there is hope of recovery; but if the patient contemn the Physicians counsel, and refuseth to take these wholesome medicines, but rather hearkeneth to some unskilful Empiric, who promiseth cure without any trouble to the patient; such a one is near death and destruction, because he cannot be cured, as the wise man showeth.