A69234:1207
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 hereof is, that seeing our corruption, we labour to reform it; and to this end, we must continually endeavour to abate the inordinate love of our selves, and to increase in our harts that heavenly love of God; and so shall we grow more mild and moderate in our own cause, and more fervently zealous in the cause of God, according to the example of Moses, who in matters which concerned himself, was 1the meekest man upon the earth, and was easily inclined to put up wrongs, and to depart from his right; but when he was to deal for God, he took upon him an holy obstinacy, so as he would not consent unto Pharaoh, that so much as a hoof should remain behind them, Exo. 10. 26. and showed 2himself religiously cruel, in slaying some of the Idolaters, and causing others to drink the ashes of the Idol. Exod. 332. 20. 27. The like mildness and patience showed Samuel, when his just government was rejected by the inconstant people; and the like fervent zeal and holy anger, when he was to deal in Gods cause against Agag the enemy of the Church, and in reproving Saul (notwithstanding that he loved him) for transgressing Gods commandment. 1 Sam 15 423. 26. 28. 33.
The vse hereof is, that seeing our corruption, we labour to reforme it; and to this end, we must continually endeauour to abate the inordinate loue of our selues, and to increase in our harts that heauenly loue of God; and so shall we grow more milde and moderate in our owne cause, and more feruently zealous in the cause of God, according to the example of Moses, who in matters which concerned himselfe, was 1the meekest man vpon the earth, and was easily inclined to put vp wrongs, and to depart from his right; but when he was to deale for God, he tooke vpon him an holy obstinacy, so as hee would not consent vnto Pharaoh, that so much as a hoofe should remaine behinde them,