A69234:1126
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.
Secondly, Parents are here admonished, that they do not 1offer the lame, halt, and sick unto God, that is, that they do not prefer to the service of the sanctuary, such of their children, as in respect of their insufficiency of gifts are unfit for any other vocation, and therefore much more unfit for this, unto which the best gifts are scarce sufficient; for what are such children beholding to their Parents for providing them maintenance by placing them in this calling, seeing by providing for their bodies for a time, they destroy both body and soul for ever, and make them also the causes of the destruction of others? in which respect they should deal better with them if they made them prentices to the basest trades, wherein they might live in the fear of God with a good conscience.
Secondly, Parents are here admonished, that they doe not 1offer the lame, hault, and sicke vnto God, that is, that they do not preferre to the seruice of the sanctuarie, such of their children, as in respect of their insufficiencie of gifts are vnfit for any other vocation, and therefore much more vnfit for this, vnto which the best gifts are scarce sufficient; for what are such children behoulding to their Parents for prouiding them maintenance by placing them in this calling, seeing by prouiding for their bodies for a time, they destroy both body and soule for euer, and make them also the causes of the destruction of others? in which respect they should deale better with them if they made them prentises to the basest trades, wherein they might liue in the feare of God with a good conscience.
- 1Parents must not offer the lame & halt to God.Parents must not offer the lame & hault to God.
Thirdly, it admonisheth Patrons and Church governors, that the one present not, the other admit not into pastoral