A69234:1228
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 Superiors: first, respecteth 1those who excel others in power and riches, that they be not hereby emboldened to be insolent in offering injuries, or cruel in oppressing the poor and weak, knowing that there is a superior power unto theirs, who nought respecteth their wealth and might, for he regardeth not bribes, nor feareth the face of the Prince, more then the basest subject, who one day will go his circuit and visitation, and summon ⟨p. 198⟩all to appear at his Assizes, and will have the causes of the weak and needy, without partiality tried before him: For he accepteth not the persons of Princes, and regardeth not the rich more then the poor, because they be all alike the work of his hands, as it is Job. 34. 19.2
The vse which concerneth Superiours: first, respecteth 1those who excell others in power and riches, that they bee not hereby enbouldened to bee insolent in offring injuryes, or cruell in oppressing the poore and weake, knowing that there is a superiour power vnto theirs, who nought respecteth their wealth and might, for hee regardeth not bribes, nor feareth the face of the Prince, more then the basest subject, who one day will goe his circuit and visitation, and summon ⟨p. 198⟩all to appeare at his Assises, and will haue the causes of the weake and needy, without partialitie tryed before him: For hee accepteth not the persons of Princes, and regardeth not the rich more then the poore, because they be all alike the work of his hands, as it is Iob. 34. 19.2
- 1God punisheth the mighty as well as the weak.