A69234:1338
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 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: Num. 25. 1. 2. 6. and also because 1husbands and fathers gave their wives and daughters fit occasion and opportunity to play the harlots, whilst they absented themselves in the hills and groves about their Superstitious devotions, yea, and provoked them also by their bad example, when under colour of Religion they gave themselves to all uncleanness, as it is the usual practise of Idolaters.
And this was the peoples sinne: their punishment followeth, whereof there is two degrees: the first, that he would punish them in their familie with shame and reproach: the ⟨p. 249⟩second, that he would with-hold the meanes, with which such abuses should bee reformed, whereby they were discredited and disgraced. The first is contayned in these words, therefore your Daughters shall be harlots, and your Spouses shall be Whores. The which words some vnderstand as the fruit and effect of their Idolatry, both because spirituall whoredome is vsually finished and perfected with corporall adultery, as appeareth in the example of the children of Israell, seduced by the daughters of Moab: Num. 25. 1. 2. 6. and also because 1husbands and fathers gaue their wiues and daughters fit occasion and opportunitie to play the harlots, whilest they absented themselues in the hils and groues about their Superstitious deuotions, yea, and prouoked them also by their bad example, when vnder colour of Religion they gaue themselues to all vncleannesse, as it is the vsuall practise of Idolaters.