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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.
And this is the meaning of the words: The Doctrines The doctrines. which arise out of them are these. First, we here learn that it is a fearful judgement of God upon either a Common ⟨p. 267⟩wealth or family, when as he suffereth sin and wickedness 1to abound, and doth not restrain men by his punishments, nor reclaim them by his corrections: And contrariwise that it is a sign of Gods love and fatherly care over those whom he doth chastise with manifold afflictions for their sins, that so he may reclaim them from their evil ways; whereas if they should flourish in their wickedness, it would be a notable means to hearten them in their sin, and to make them securely to go forward in their evil courses, without ever calling themselves to a reckoning.
And this is the meaning of the words: The Doctrines The doctrines. which arise out of them are these. First, we here learne that it is a fearefull judgement of God vpon eyther a Common ⟨p. 267⟩wealth or familie, when as hee suffereth sinne and wickednesse 1to abound, and doth not restraine men by his punishments, nor reclaime them by his corrections: And contrariwise that it is a signe of Gods loue and fatherly care ouer those whom hee doth chastise with manifold afflictions for their sinnes, that so hee may reclaime them from their euill wayes; whereas if they should flourish in their wickednesse, it would be a notable meanes to hearten them in their sinne, and to make them securely to goe forward in their euill courses, without euer calling themselues to a reckoning.
- 1It is a fearful judgement when God doth not restrain us from sin by his chastisements.It is a fearefull judgement when God doth not restraine vs from sinne by his chastisements.