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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.
Lastly, this may enforce all to avoid slothful idleness in 1their Ministry, in that they make themselves subject hereby to eternal condemnation. For the unprofitable servant, who having received a talent of his master, and idly hideth it, never using it for his masters glory, nor for the good of his fellow-servants, must be cast into utter darkness, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Mat. 25. 30. O then what will ⟨p. 160⟩2it profit such negligent Ministers that they have passed their time in idleness, pomp and pleasure, when as they shall bear the punishment, not only of their own sin, but of theirs also, whom by their negligence they have destroyed? what will it avail them, that they have heaped living upon living, seeing hereby they have multiplied both their sin and condemnation? what will that excuse pleasure them, that they have committed over the charge of the souls undertaken by them, to a substitute or attorney; seeing at this great Audit their Attorney shall not be suffered to answer for them, but they shall be constrained to render an account in their own person But most fearful will their state be, who to save charges and avoid pains, have made choice of ignorant and insufficient men, to be their substitutes, more fit to be Neat-herds, or Swine-herds, then the shepherds of the Lords sheep: like Uzzah, who committed the Ark to be drawn in a Cart, which he should have carried upon his own shoulder; so they commit the burden of Gods Ark, the Church, to such as are little better then Carters, and think it sufficient, if once or twice in a year they put to their hand and sustain it, when (as it were) it tottereth and is ready to fall But such are to expect, if not the like sudden, yet a more fearful judgement then that which happened to Uzzah, who in Gods fierce wrath was smitten with 3death. 2 Sam. 6. 7.
Lastly, this may inforce all to auoid slothfull idlenesse in 1