A69234:1282
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.
AND so much concerning the third bill of indictment; wherein the people of Israel, especially the Priests are accused and convicted of divers heinous crimes. Now least the people should think their faults extenuated, and themselves acquitted either from the guilt or punishment of their sins, because they were mislead by their blind and wicked guides, he teturneth again unto them, and frameth against them a new bill of indictment, wherein he accuseth them, that they wilfully joined with their false teachers in their Idolatry, & were well contented to be guided by them, rather then by Gods true Prophets; and therefore it was just with God, that both the blind leaders and blind followers should fall together into the pit of destruction, seeing they both wilfully did shut their eyes, and loved the darkness of ignorance far better then the shining light of Gods truth.
AND so much concerning the third bill of inditement; wherein the people of Israell, especially the Priests are accused and conuicted of diuers haynous crimes. Now least the people should thinke their faults extenuated, and themselues acquitted either from the guilt or punishment of their sinnes, because they were mislead by their blinde and wicked guides, he teturneth againe vnto them, and frameth against them a new bill of inditement, wherein he accuseth them, that they wilfully joyned with their false teachers in their Idolatry, & were well contented to be guided by them, rather then by Gods true Prophets; and therefore it was just with God, that both the blinde leaders and blinde followers should fall together into the pit of destruction, seeing they both wilfully did shut their eyes, and loued the darknesse of ignorance far better then the shining light of Gods truth.
This indictment containeth two things: First, an accusation of sin: Secondly, a denunciation of punishment. Their sin whereof he accuseth them, was their Idolatry, the which is of two kinds: first, their consulting with their Idols: secondly, their worshipping of them by oblations and sacrifices. Their consulting with their Idols is set down in these words, Verse 12. My people ask counsel of their stocks, and Verse 12 their staff teacheth them: for the spirit of fornications hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.