A69234:1336
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.
Secondly, their sin was aggravated by their shameless impudency, for they did not commit their spiritual whoredoms in secret corners, but in the eye of the world in most eminent places.
Secondly, their sinne was aggrauated by their shamelesse impudencie, for they did not commit their spirituall whoredomes in secret corners, but in the eye of the world in most eminent places.
Lastly, in that they were not abashed at their wickedness, but rather justified it by pretending their good meaning, advancing themselves before all who had not aspired to the same degree of sin, and that through affected and wilful ignorance, for their practise was repugnant and opposite to the express word of God, which was not only committed unto them in writing, but also faithfully expounded and zealously enforced by Gods true Prophets.
Lastly, in that they were not abashed at their wickednes, but rather justified it by pretending their good meaning, aduancing themselues before all who had not aspired to the same degree of sinne, and that through affected and wilfull ignorance, for their practise was repugnant and opposite to the expresse word of God, which was not onely committed vnto them in writing, but also faithfully expounded and zealously inforced by Gods true Prophets.
And this was the peoples sin: their punishment followeth, whereof there is two degrees: the first, that he would punish them in their family with shame and reproach: the ⟨p. 249⟩second, that he would with-hold the means, with which such abuses should be reformed, whereby they were discredited and disgraced. The first is contained in these words, therefore your Daughters shall be harlots, and your Spouses shall be Whores. The which words some understand as the fruit and effect of their Idolatry, both because spiritual whoredom is usually finished and perfected with corporal adultery, as appeareth in the example of the children of Israel, seduced by the daughters of Moab: