A69234:139
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 children of fornications. That is, beget of this unclean and filthy wife, unclean and filthy children: which may be called children of fornications, either because they are borne of an adulterous harlot; or because when they come to years, they will resemble and imitate their mother in her fornications.
And children of fornications. That is, beget of this vncleane and filthie wife, vncleane and filthy children: which may be called children of fornications, either because they are borne of an adulterous harlot; or because when they come to yeeres, they will resemble and imitate their mother in her fornications.
And this is the meaning of the words. In which is propounded a parable to the Israelites, wherein the Prophet representeth ⟨p. 37⟩the person of God; the wife of fornications, the Church or Synagogue of the Israelites, or the ten Tribes; the children of fornications, the particular men and women, which successively one age after an other, committed spiritual fornication, forsaking God, their first and true husband, and betaking themselves to the worship and service of idols.
And this is the meaning of the words. In which is propounded a parable to the Israelites, wherein the Prophet representeth ⟨p. 37⟩the person of God; the wife of fornications, the Church or Synagogue of the Israelites, or the ten Tribes; the children of fornications, the particular men and women, which successiuely one age after an other, committed spirituall fornication, forsaking God, their first and true husband, and betaking themselues to the worshippe and seruice of idols.