A69234:1141
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.
Fourthly, because through the negligence of the Minister, 1the people want knowledge, and so are destroyed, as it is in this place. To this accordeth that. Prou. 29. 18. Where there is no vision, the people decay. Of which destruction idle Ministers are not only accessories, but also principal causes; whereof it is, that the Lord plainly saith, that the idle shepherds who did not feed his sheep, did devour them. Ezech. 234. 8. 10. And therefore affirmeth, that he will require his sheep at their hands, as being guilty of their blood. Now if the murdering and destroying of one body be a fearful sin, and will make an heavy reckoning at the day of judgement, what shall we think of their sin and account, who have murdered the bodies and souls of many hundreds committed to their charge, not with a momentany and temporal, but with a spiritual and everlasting death?
Fourthly, because through the negligence of the Minister, 1the people want knowledge, and so are destroyed, as it is in this place. To this accordeth that. Prou. 29. 18. Where there is no vision, the people decay. Of which destruction idle Ministers are not only accessaries, but also principall causes; whereof it is, that the Lord plainely saith, that the idle shepheards who did not feed his sheep, did deuoure them. Ezech. 234. 8. 10. And therefore affirmeth, that he will require his sheepe at their hands, as being guiltie of their bloud. Now if the murthering and destroying of one body be a fearefull sin, and will make an heauie reckoning at the day of judgement, what shall we thinke of their sinne and account, who haue murthered the bodyes and soules of many hundreds committed to their charge, not with a momentany and temporall, but with a spirituall and euerlasting death?