A69234:1427
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 contrariwise, He that refuseth instruction, despiseth his own soul; but he that obeyeth correction, getteth understanding, Pro. 15. 32.
And contrariwise, He that refuseth instruction, despiseth his owne soule; but hee that obeyeth correction, getteth vnderstanding, Pro. 15. 32.
Fourthly, whereas the Lord by his Prophet doth first admonish 1the people of Judah, to avoid the sins of the Israelites, and then in the next place doth dehort them from going to Gilgal, that is, from having any near familiarity or society with the superstitious Israelites, especially in their idolatrous service; hence we learn first in general, that whosoever will avoid sin, must also avoid the means whereby he might be induced to fall into it, and then more especially that he avoid the society and near familiarity of sinners, as being a singular inducement to draw men into communion of wickedness. This David knew well, and therefore being resolved to observe Gods law, and seeing some kind of impossibility, that he should so do, if the wicked did frequent his company; in the first place he banisheth them, and then resolveth to go forward in his course, Psal. 119. 115. Away from me ye wicked, for I will keep the Commandments 2of my God. Sin is the canker of the soul; and therefore as the canker having infected one part of the body, goeth unto the next, till all be wholly corrupted; so sin having infected ⟨p. 294⟩one person of a family, or one family of a city, stayeth not here, but infecteth the next, and so spreadeth by degrees till it have corrupted the whole body: this the Apostle showeth,