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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.
But if these reasons will not allure and persuade us, there 1are others which may force and constrain us, to be painful in the Ministry: first, because there is a fearful woe denounced against those who neglect this duty, and whilst they feed themselves starve the flock. Ezech. 34. 2. The which woe the Apostle acknowledgeth due to himself, if he did not preach the gospel. 1 Cor. 9. 16. And indeed 2most woeful is the condition of such idle shepherds seeing the Lord doth threaten to come against them as their enemy, to take vengeance on them. Ezech. 34. 10. into whose 3hands it is a fearful thing to fall, Heb. 10. 31▪ because he 4is a consuming fire, and his enemies as stubble before him. Chap. 12. 29.
But if these reasons will not allure and perswade vs, there 1are others which may force and constraine vs, to be painefull in the Ministerie: first, because there is a fearefull woe denounced against those who neglect this dutie, and whilest they feede themselues starue the flocke. Ezech. 34. 2. The which woe the Apostle acknowledgeth due to himselfe, if he did not preach the gospell. 1 Cor. 9. 16. And indeede 2most wofull is the condition of such idle shepheards seeing the Lord doth threaten to come against them as their enimie, to take vengeance on them.