A69234:1198
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 sin therefore of the Priests which is here condemned is, that they desired the people should commit many sins, that so they might receive the benefit of many sacrifices, and being thus enriched, might spend their time in idleness and luxuriousness; the which was an abominable wickedness against God; for their allowance was ⟨p. 183⟩granted unto them, that they should restrain the people from sin by their instructions, admonitions and reproofs; and therefore they were to receive their carnal things, that they might communicate unto them spiritual things, and howsoever they gained by the sacrifices offered for sin, yet they should not have delighted in their sins, nay they should have mourned for them, and even have groaned under their burden, to which end the sin offering was allowed them, as appeareth, Leu. 10. 17. for so he saith, that 1the sin Offering was given the Priests, that they should bear the iniquity of the Congregation, and make an atonement for them before the Lord.
The sinne therefore of the Priests which is here condemned is, that they desired the people should commit many sinnes, that so they might receiue the benefit of many sacrifices, and being thus inriched, might spend their time in idlenesse and luxuriousnesse; the which was an abhominable wickednesse against God; for their allowance vvas ⟨p. 183⟩graunted vnto them, that they should restraine the people from sinne by their instructions, admonitions and reproofes; and therefore they were to receiue their carnall things, that they might communicate vnto them spirituall things, and howsoeuer they gayned by the sacrifices offred for sinne, yet they should not haue delighted in their sinnes, nay they should haue mourned for them, and euen haue groned vnder their burthen, to which end the sinne offering was allowed them, as appeareth, Leu. 10. 17. for so he saith, that 1the sinne Offring was giuen the Priests, that they should beare the iniquitie of the Congregation, and make an attonement for them before the Lord.