A69234:1364
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 these are the parts: the exposition followeth. Some 1of great learning and judgement, do read these words by way of interrogation thus, should not I punish your daughters because they play the harlots? &c. as though he should say, I will most certainly punish them, and I appeal to your own consciences whether it be not just that they should be punished for their uncleanness. The which interpretation they embrace because they think that it could 2not stand with Gods justice to suffer their adulteries to go unpunished.
And these are the parts: the exposition followeth. Some 1of great learning and judgement, doe reade these vvordes by way of interrogation thus, should not I punish your daughters because they play the harlots? &c. as though hee should say, I will most certainely punish them, and I appeale to your owne consciences whether it be not just that they should be punished for their vncleannesse. The which interpretation they imbrace because they thinke that it could 2not stand with Gods justice to suffer their adulteries to goe vnpunished.
- 1The Exposition Junius & Polanus.The Expositiō Iunius & Polanus.
- 2Heb. 13. 4.
But howsoever this exposition be agreeable with the analogy of faith, and is not contrary to the circumstances of the place, yet I prefer before it our own translation; first, ⟨p. 262⟩