A69234:1187
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, when as knowing God to be the author of the blessings which we enjoy, we do not praise him with thankful hearts, nor employ his gifts to the advancement of his ⟨p. 177⟩glory, which are the chief ends for which he hath bestowed them. Psal. 105. 45.1
Secondly, when as knowing God to be the authour of the blessings which we enjoy, we doe not praise him with thankfull hearts, nor imploy his gifts to the aduancement of his ⟨p. 177⟩glory, which are the chiefe ends for which he hath bestowed them. Psal. 105. 45.1
Lastly, when as we abuse Gods blessings as means and motives to with-draw us from performing the duties which God requireth of us, and to incite us to the committing of the contrary vices. As when by Gods blessings we are made more slack and negligent in the duties of his worship and service, as those are who to maintain state, come not to the assemblies of Gods Saints, to hear the Word, and call upon his name, when as enjoying prosperity we be moved thereby to with-draw our hearts from God, and to set them upon the world; when as honours make us neglect him who hath advanced us; when as riches like thorns choke in us the seed of the word, so as Gods spiritual graces cannot spring in us; when as enjoying pleasures, we wallow in these worldly delights, and spend that precious time wholly in them, which should be bestowed in Gods service; when as by worldly prosperity we are made more proud, insolent, disdainful, impatient, revengeful, cruel, unmerciful, voluptuous, spending we care not what upon back, belly, and upon the filthy lusts of the flesh. And this is the chief and most ungrateful abuse of Gods benefits, when as we do not only not glorify him, but dishonour and injure him in his own gifts, as if the poor Subject being enriched by his Prince, should employ his riches in furnishing himself for the service of the Princes enemy: or as if the wife having from her husband abundance of all things, should abuse his gifts for the hiring and rewarding of filthy adulterers, as