A69234:146
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.
Out of which we may further gather, how far we are naturally in love with our sins; so that we cannot be moved 1to hate, condemn, and mortify them, so long as they bear our own names; but rather are ready to mince, excuse, and defend them, until we view them in the person of others, and see them enrolled under their names.
Out of which we may further gather, how farre wee are naturally in loue with our sinnes; so that we cannot be moued 1to hate, condemne, and mortifie them, so long as they beare our owne names; but rather are ready to mince, excuse, and defend them, vntill we view them in the person of others, and see them enrolled vnder their names.
- 1Our natural and corrupt love to sin.Our naturall and corrupt loue to sinne.
Secondly, we may note our too too great love of our selves, and too too small love towards our neighbours; 1which maketh us easily to discern, and heavily and severely to censure other mens faults; whereas we are ready to excuse or defend the same, or greater in our selves: and therefore ••• Lord, when he would have us to see and condemn our sins, doth not offer them to our censure, as they are in our own selves, whom we love too much; but in the person of others, whom for the most part, we love not so much as we should: as appeareth in the former examples, and in this place: wherein the Lord is fain to deal with us, as tender mothers deal with their wanton and wayward children; whom when they would as willingly amend, as unwillingly displease them, they use to chide and beat the standers by, ⟨p. 40⟩