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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.
Vers. 2. At the beginning, the Lord spake by Hosea; and the Vers. 2 Lord said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of fornications, and children of fornications: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord. In this verse is contained the Lords commandment, and the reason thereof. In the commandment is set down: 1. The time or order: 2. The commander: 3. The person unto whom the commandment is directed: 4. The thing commanded.
Vers. 2. At the beginning, the Lord spake by Hosea; and the Vers. 2 Lord said vnto Hosea, Go, take vnto thee a wife of fornications, and children of fornications: for the land hath committed great whoredome, departing from the Lord. In this verse is contained the Lords commandement, and the reason thereof. In the commandement is set downe: 1. The time or order: 2. The commander: 3. The person vnto whom the commandement is directed: 4. The thing commanded.
The time or order in these words (At the beginning) 1which some expound, that the Lord first spake unto this Prophet, before he spake unto any of the rest, and sent him to prophesy unto the people, before any of the other Prophets. But this being generally understood, is not true, seeing before he had spoken to many, as to Abraham, Noah, Elijah, Elisha, &c. And if more particularly we understand it of the Prophets of his time, whose writings are extant, it is not probable that Hosea was first, but rather Jonah, who prophesied in the beginning of Jeroboam's reign, and did foretell all his famous victories, as appeareth, 2. King. 14. 25. 2whereas it is very likely, that Hosea prophesied not until the latter end, unless we would say that he prophesied 100. years, for so much it is almost from the beginning of Jeroboam's reign, to the beginning of Hezekiah. And moreover it is here said, vers. 4. that the judgements threatened by Hosea, should within a little while be inflicted, which was not in Jeroboam's reign, but in his sons, and those who succeeded him. These words therefore, are rather thus to be understood, that this was the beginning of the Lords speech unto Hosea; or that the Lord thus began his speech unto Hosea, when he called him to be his Ambassador unto the people: and this the Hebrew text will well bear, for it may as well be translated thus: The beginning of the Lords speech, as at the beginning the Lord spake, seeing the word may indifferently be either noun or verb.