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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.
The second thing to be observed is, that not only the 1people who live in wickedness, but also the Prophets who seduce them, or bolster them up in their sins, shall fall ⟨p. 130⟩into the pit of Gods judgements in the day of his visitation. So the Prophet Jeremiah threateneth Pashur the son of Imner the Priest, that because he had preached lies, he and 2all that belonged to him should dye in captivity. Jer. 20. 6. So the Lord threateneth, that in his wrath he will come against the Prophets, which have sweet tongues seducing the people with pleasing Lies. Chap. 23. 31. So when the false Prophets bore the people in hand that they should not serve the king of Babel▪ for this their sin in seducing the people, and the sin of the people in giving credit rather to them then to the true Prophets, the Lord denounceth destruction both against the Prophets and people, Chap. 27. 315. See Chap. 14. 14. 15. 16. The Prophet Ezekiel likewise threateneth the false Prophets, that because they proclaimed peace, where the Lord denounced war, & played the daubers, in covering the faults and sins of the people with untempered mortar, that they and their work should both perish. Ezech. 10. 14. And in general the Lord delivered 4this denunciation by the same Prophet, that if the watchman seeing the sword coming, did not give the people warning, nor admonish them of their wicked ways, the wicked should dye in their sins, but their blood should be required of the watchman's hands. The reason hereof is manifest, 5for if those whom he hath appointed to be his ambassadors unto the people living in their rebellion, that they may tell them of their sins, and denounce his judgements, do conspire with the people against God, sooth them in their sins, and become the heralds to proclaim Gods mercies, not caring to displease God so they may please the people; the Lord in his justice can do no less but punish the rebellions of the people, and the treacherous treason of such ambassadors.