A69234:1392
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.
The sinful ignorance is of two kinds: The first, necessary: 1the other voluntary and affected. Necessary ignorance is either that darkness of understanding, and blindness of mind derived from our first Parents, which is one of the branches of original sin; or that actual ignorance which continueth in us after we come to years, when as we are deprived of the means of knowledge, both which cannot be excused, much less defended, in that we are ignorant of those things which we ought to know, and that through our own default, as being guilty of the sin of our first Parents: for God in them endued us with a clear light of knowledge, but we in them did fall into sin, and thereby put out the light, and defaced the image of God in our understanding.
The sinfull ignorance is of two kindes: The first, necessary: 1the other voluntary and affected. Necessary ignorance is eyther that darknesse of vnderstanding, and blindnesse of minde deriued from our first Parents, which is one of the branches of originall sinne; or that actuall ignorance which continueth in vs after wee come to yeares, when as we are depriued of the meanes of knowledge, both which cannot bee excused, much lesse defended, in that wee are ignorant of those things which wee ought to know, and that through our owne default, as being guilty of the sinne of our first Parents: for God in them indued vs with a cleare light of knowledge, but wee in them did fall into sinne, and thereby put out the light, and defaced the image of God in our vnderstanding.
- 1Of sinful and necessary ignorance.Of sinfull and necessary ignorance.
But howsoever this ignorance is the evil of sin, and 1not the evil of punishment alone, as some have imagined, yet it doth excuse other faults and sins, and also lesseneth the punishment. It doth excuse wholly a fault before men, when as it is committed through necessary ignorance, all means of knowledge being wanting; but before God it doth not wholly excuse and acquit us for the reasons above alleged, but only in part, and as the schoolmen speak, it freeth us à tanto non à toto, that is, it lesseneth our sin and punishment but doth not wholly take them away: so our Saviour saith, that the servant that knew not his masters will, and did commit things worthy of stripes, should not altogether escape unpunished, but should be beaten with fewer stripes,