A69234:1106
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 punishment threatened is proportionable to the sin, namely that God likewise would forget their children; the which is spoken after the manner of men, that he might the better fit himself to their capacity: for if we speak properly, God cannot be said to forget or remember, seeing all things past, present, and to come, are present before him in one perfect view: but hereby he would signify unto them, that as they had so neglected his law, that they did not so much as remember it, so he would utterly neglect them, and withdraw from them all signs of his love and care, as if he had utterly forgotten them and his covenant made with them. Now whereas he saith that he would forget their children: the meaning is that he would destroy the Priesthood: for ordinarily the children succeeded the parents in the Priests office; but now he telleth them that he would not only strip them of this honour, but their posterity also, and so make the priesthood to cease: for whereas he threateneth the children, he much more includeth the parents; for if the heat of Gods wrath extended to the children, for their fathers sins; much more should it be inflamed against the fathers themselves.
The punishment threatned is proportionable to the sinne, namely that God likewise would forget their children; the which is spoken after the manner of men, that he might the better fit himselfe to their capacitie: for if wee speake properly, God cannot be said to forget or remember, seeing all things past, present, and to come, are present before him in one perfect view: but hereby hee would signifie vnto them, that as they had so neglected his law, that they did not so much as remember it, so he would vtterly neglect them, and withdraw from them all signes of his loue and care, as if he had vtterly forgotten them and his couenant made with them. Now whereas he saith that hee would forget their children: the meaning is that he would destroy the Priesthood: for ordinarily the children succeeded the parents in the Priests office; but now he telleth them that he would not onely strip them of this honour, but their posteritie also, and so make the priesthood to cease: for whereas he threatneth the children, he much more includeth the parents; for if the heate of Gods wrath extended to the children, for their fathers sinnes; much more should it be inflamed against the fathers themselues.