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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.
for when as he hath showed himself loth to punish both by his delays, and by using all means to reclaim them, and yet they stubbornly persist in their wickedness, then are the judgements of God inflicted upon them approved by all men, and even by their own guilty consciences.
for when as he hath shewed himselfe lothe to punish both by his delayes, and by vsing all meanes to reclaime them, and yet they stubbornly persist in their wickednesse, then are the judgements of God inflicted vpon them approued by all men, and euen by their owne guilty consciences.
Notwithstanding howsoever the Lord for these and divers 1other causes deferreth the execution of his just vengeance, yet men abuse this his long-suffering unto sin, either imagining with the Atheist, that he hath not thunderbolts enough to dart against every sinner for every fault, or that there is ⟨p. 200⟩no providence, no justice, no God that regardeth the sins of men: or with the secure Worldling, that they may go on in their sins without repentance, because these punishments which are so long delayed, will never be inflicted; according to that, Eccle. 8. 11. because sentence against an evil work is 2not executed speedily, therefore the hart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil. An example whereof we have in the evil servant. Mat. 24. 48. who because his master 3deferred his coming, so behaved himself as though he would never come: and in those mockers who because the day of judgement is deferred, therefore walk after their own