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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.
Secondly, because the end of our callings and the profits of them, is not that we should pamper our selves in ease, and satisfy our lusts, but that we should by the performance of our duties glorify God, and further the good of the Church and common wealth, which who so neglects, they are like unprofitable Drones, who gather no honey, but live at ease and feed themselves with others labours.
Secondly, because the end of our callings and the profits of them, is not that we should pamper our selues in ease, and satisfie our lusts, but that we should by the performance of our duties glorifie God, and further the good of the Church and common wealth, which who so neglects, they are like vnprofitable Drones, who gather no hony, but liue at ease and feed themselues with others labours.
Examples of this sin we have in Esau, who spent all his time in hunting, which should have been employed in the duties of his calling. In the Sodomites, who spent their wealth in pride and pleasures, eating and drinking, idleness and luxuriousness, and wholly neglected the relief of the poor. Ezech. 16. 49. In the Idol shepherds, who fleeced their 1sheep, and fed upon the milk, but did not feed the flock, Ezech. 34. 2. And in the evil servant, who seized upon the reward due to the steward, and spent it in eating and drinking, but neglected the duties which he owed, both to his master and the family. Mat. 24. 49. 50.2
Examples of this sinne we haue in Esau, who spent all his time in hunting, which should haue beene imployed in the duties of his calling. In the Sodomits, who spent their wealth in pride and pleasures, eating and drinking, idlenes and luxvriousnesse, and wholy neglected the reliefe of the poore.