A69234:1179
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.
The use which concerneth the people is, that they honour 1them whom God thus honoureth, and that they behave themselves towards their Ministers, as it becometh the rest of the family to behave themselves towards the steward or Treasurer; the people towards the Ambassador; yea the children towards their fathers. For look what honour is done unto them, as being Gods Ambassadors, that the Lord accounteth as done unto himself, whose person they sustain; look what disgrace and reproach is offered against them as being his Ministers, the Lord esteemeth it as offered against himself, and therefore will never let it go unpunished, either in this life or in the life to come: for if David could not endure those insolent abuses which were by Hanun offered 2against his Ambassadors, whom in love and kindness he ⟨p. 174⟩sent unto him, but revenged them with the death and destruction of a great part of the people of Ammon: how much less can the Lord endure that reproach, injuries & outrages, should be offered against his Ambassadors, and not revenge these indignities, which are not so much offered against men, as in them against himself? Fearful examples hereof we have in the Scriptures, as in the conspiracy of Corah and his associates, whom the earth swallowed quick. Numb. 16. In 3Jeroboam, whose hand was withered up for the contempt and violence which he offered against the Lords Prophet. 1 Kin. 413. In the two Captains & their fifties, who were destroyed with fire from heaven, because they came not to the Lords Prophet, with that submissive reverence which beseemed them. 2 King. 1. 9. 10. 11. 12. In the fifty two children 5