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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.
but as a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him: for he knoweth whereof we be made, he remembereth that we are but dust, as it is Psal. 103. 10. 13. 14.1
but as a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that feare him: for he knoweth whereof we be made, he remembreh that wee are but dust, as it is Psal. 103. 10. 13. 14.1
As therefore a loving father beareth with the infirmities of his child, when he seeth that he taketh good courses, & endeavoureth with an earnest desire to please him: so the 1Lord much more accepteth of the imperfect obedience of his children, when as he seeth that with upright harts, they desire to serve and please him, covering their imperfections with Christs perfect righteousness, and washing away their corruptions in his most precious blood, so as in the day of judgement they shall not arise against them to their condemnation. Although David did make a fearful digression out of the way of righteousness when as he committed murder and adultery, and numbered the people, yet God did not judge him according to these particular slips, because in the whole course of his life he kept the ways of the Lord, and hated all by-ways of falsehood and iniquity, as himself professeth, Psal. 18. 21