A69234:1322
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.
Hitherto we have spoken of their first kind of Idolatry, that is to say, their consulting with Idols: The second followeth, which is their worshipping of them, by offering unto them sacrifices and oblations: Unto which is annexed the punishment which is inflicted upon them, for both the one and the other. Verse 13. They sacrifice upon the tops of Verse 13 the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills under the Oak, and the Poplar tree, and the Elm, because the shadow thereof is good; therefore your daughters shall be harlots, and your spouses shall be Whores, &c. The which words contain two parts: 1the first is an accusation of sin: the second is a denunciation of punishment. Their sin was their Idolatrous worship, which also was performed in places prohibited by Gods express commandment. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains: Where he more plainly showeth what he meant by the spirit of fornications in the former ⟨p. 245⟩Verse, namely, that they had forsaken the Lord and his true worship, together with the place unto which it was appropriated, and committed spiritual whoredom with their idols, which they erected to themselves upon every hill and mountain.
HEtherto we haue spoken of their first kind of Idolatry, that is to say, their consulting with Idols: The second followeth, which is their worshipping of them, by offring vnto them sacrifices and oblations: Vnto which is annexed the punishment which is inflicted vpon them, for both the one and the other. Verse 13. They sacrifice vpon the tops of Verse 13 the mountaines, and burne incense vpon the hils vnder the Oake, and the Poplar tree, and the Elme, because the shadow thereof is good; therefore your daughters shall be harlots, and your spouses shall be Whores, &c. The which words containe two parts: 1the first is an accusation of sinne: the second is a denunciation of punishment. Their sinne was their Idolatrous worship, which also was performed in places prohibited by Gods expresse commaundement. They sacrifice vpon the tops of the mountaines: Where hee more plainely sheweth what he meant by the spirit of fornications in the former ⟨p. 245⟩Verse, namely, that they had forsaken the Lord and his true worship, together with the place vnto which it was appropriated, and committed spirituall whoredome with their idols, which they erected to themselues vpon euery hill and mountaine.