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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.
But it is objected, that in the text, this is plainly set down as an history of things actually done. I answer, that this Objection 1 Answer. is usual with the Prophets, to the end that they may, after a more significant and emphatical manner, express their minds, and leave a more deep impression in the minds of their hearers, to propound types and parables as histories of ⟨p. 35⟩things done, for the distinguishing whereof: and the true expounding of such places we are to observe this rule, that where the literal sense implieth any impossibility, or gross absurdity, or any thing contrary to the analogy of faith, or some other plain place of Scripture, there we are to expound it as a type or parable: but in this place if we take the literal sense, it implieth a gross absurdity▪ and contradicteth other places of Scripture, as I have showed, and therefore it is to be understood typically and as a parable.
But it is obiected, that in the text, this is plainely set down as an history of things actually done. I answere, that this Obiection 1 Answer. is vsuall with the Prophets, to the end that they may, after a more significant and emphaticall manner, expresse their mindes, and leaue a more deepe impression in the mindes of their hearers, to propound types and parables as histories of ⟨p. 35⟩things done, for the distinguishing whereof: and the true expounding of such places we are to obserue this rule, that where the litteral sense implieth any impossibility, or grosse absurditie, or any thing contrarie to the analogie of faith, or some other plaine place of Scripture, there wee are to expound it as a type or parable: but in this place if wee take the litterall sense, it implieth a grosse absurditie▪ and contradicteth other places of Scripture, as I haue shewed, and therefore it is to be vnderstood typically and as a parable.
Neither are we to understand this place so only, but many other the like which seem as plain histories of things done, as this here. So Isaiah is said to have walked naked and barefoot 3. years,