A69234:1457
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 being full of cruel and wicked men, as it were with so many wolves, bears, tigres, and lions, should give unto them continual cause of fear, of being devoured and destroyed, both in respect of their ravenous rage, and powerful malice; and also their own feeble weakness in making any resistance.
and being full of cruell and wicked men, as it were with so many wolues, beares, tigres, and lions, should giue vnto them continuall cause of feare, of being deuoured and destroyed, both in respect of their rauenous rage, and powerfull malice; and also their owne feeble weaknesse in making any resistance.
And this also was an effectual argument to dissuade the men of Judah, from associating themselves with the wicked Israelites, seeing if they were copartners with them in their defection and rebellion, forsaking Gods true Church, Temple, and religion, to join with them in their apostasy, superstition, and idolatry, they should also participate with them in all these calamities and grievous miseries.
And this also was an effectuall argument to disswade the men of Iuda, from associating themselues with the wicked Israelites, seeing if they were copartners with them in their defection and rebellion, forsaking Gods true Church, Temple, and religion, to ioyne with them in their apostasie, superstition, and idolatrie, they should also participate with them in all these calamities and grieuous miseries.
And thus much for the meaning of the words. The doctrines The Do∣ctrines. which arise out of them are divers. First, generally we may here observe, that as by nature we are inclinable to follow 1bad company, so when we are once entangled with it, we are hardly drawn from it, with the best arguments and most effectual dissuasions. An example hereof we have in this place; for when the people of Judah had found a wicked sweetness in the society of the idolatrous Israelites, they were hardly drawn from frequenting their company, and therefore the Lord thought it necessary by his Prophet, to use so many forcible reasons, some whereof are taken from the heinousness of their sins, and some from the grievousness of their punishments, to dissuade the men of Judah from haunting the impious fellowship of the Israelites. So how often and earnestly did the Lord charge the people of Israel, when they entered into the land of promise, not to make any covenant, not to have any society with the inhabitants of the land? as we may see,