A69234:1271
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.
It is further said that Whoredom, Wine, and new Wine did take away their hart. Where by hart we are to understand all the chief faculties of the soul, as the understanding and reason, the will and affections; so that through their voluptuousness their minds were infatuated with blind ignorance, their wills with-drawn from all goodness, and their affections become so brutish that they delighted in nothing but in beastly sensuality. And in this sense the hart is usually taken in the scriptures: for whereas man consisteth of two principal parts, the body and the soul, the body is ⟨p. 219⟩usually called the flesh; the soul the hart. So Psal. 84. 2. My 1hart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. 1 Pet. 3. 4. Let the 2hid man of the hart be uncorrupt. Psal. 16. 9. Wherefore my hart 3is glad, my tongue rejoiceth, my flesh also doth rest in hope. 4Gen. 6. 5. and 8. 21.
It is further said that Whoredome, Wine, and new Wine did take away their hart. Where by hart wee are to vnderstand all the chiefe faculties of the soule, as the vnderstanding and reason, the will and affections; so that through their voluptuousnesse their mindes were infatuated with blinde ignorance, their wils with-drawne from all goodnesse, and their affections become so brutish that they delighted in nothing but in beastly sensualitie. And in this sense the hart is vsually taken in the scriptures: for whereas man consisteth of two principall parts, the body and the soule, the body is ⟨p. 219⟩