A69234:1366
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.
Yea, but howsoever it was just with God to punish the sins of the husband and fathers, with the sins of the wives and daughters, yet how can this stand with his justice not to punish their sins also? I answer that we are not to understand these words generally and absolutely, as though he would inflict upon them no kind of punishment, or at no time visit them for their sins. For it is said, that whoremongers and adulterers God will judge, Heb. 13. 14. but more specially, that he would not lay upon them that kind of punishment which is called chastisement and correction, whereby God restraineth his children from sin, or reclaimeth them by repentance when as they are fallen into it; and that ⟨p. 263⟩he would not punish them as yet, but would suffer them to go on in their sins, until thereby he had punished the sins of their husbands and fathers, and then when the measure of both their wickedness was full, he would overwhelm them all in an universal deluge of his judgements, both in this life and the life to come.
Yea, but howsoeuer it was just vvith God to punish the sinnes of the husband and fathers, with the sins of the wiues and daughters, yet how can this stand with his justice not to punish their sinnes also? I answere that we are not to vnderstand these words generally and absolutely, as though he would inflict vpon them no kinde of punishment, or at no time visite them for their sinnes. For it is said, that whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge, Heb. 13. 14. but more specially, that he would not lay vpon them that kinde of punishment which is called chastisement and correction, wherby God restraineth his children from sinne, or reclaymeth them by repentance when as they are fallen into it; and that ⟨p. 263⟩hee would not punish them as yet, but would suffer them to goe on in their sinnes, vntill thereby hee had punished the sinnes of their husbands and fathers, and then vvhen the measure of both their vvickednesse vvas full, he would ouerwhelme them all in an vniuersall deluge of his judgements, both in this life and the life to come.