A69234:1455
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.
By which similitude the Prophet doth in most lively manner decipher the miserable condition of the people of Israel; for first, whereas sheep being sociable creatures, delight in company, and love to be in the flock; it is unto them irksome and tedious, when being strayed from the rest, they wander alone in desert places: but such tediousness of life the Lord threateneth against the Israelites; for seeing they would not associate themselves with the rest of his flock, the people of Judah, nor would be content to be infolded in his Temple, as it were in their safe sheepfold; but behaved themselves rather like wanton heifers, then like the Lords sheep, taking delight in gadding from the rest of their company and leaping into forbidden pastures; therefore the Lord threateneth, that seeing through wantonness they delighted in separation, he would so scatter them amongst the ⟨p. 306⟩Heathen, that they should not have any flock to join themselves unto, nor no fellowship or communion one with an other, but should become like single sheep, scattered here and there in vast and desert places. And this is implied whereas he useth the singular number, saying that they should be feed, not as lambs flocking together, but as a lamb severed from the rest of his company.
By which similitude the Prophet doth in most liuely maner decipher the miserable condition of the people of Israel; for first, whereas sheepe being sociable creatures, delight in companie, and loue to be in the flocke; it is vnto them irksome and tedious, when being straied from the rest, they wander alone in desert places: but such tediousnesse of life the Lord threatneth against the Israelites; for seeing they would not associate themselues with the rest of his flocke, the people of Iuda, nor would bee content to be infolded in his Temple, as it were in their safe sheepfould; but behaued themselues rather like wanton heifers, then like the Lords sheep, taking delight in gadding from the rest of their companie and leaping into forbidden pastures; therefore the Lord threatneth, that seeing through wantonnesse they delighted in separation, he would so scatter them amongst the ⟨p. 306⟩Heathen, that they should not haue any flock to ioine themselues vnto, nor no fellowship or communion one with an other, but should become like single sheepe, scattered here and there in vast and desert places. And this is implied whereas hee vseth the singular number, saying that they should be feede, not as lambes flocking together, but as a lambe seuered from the rest of his companie.