A69234:1465
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.
Again, the imminent danger of Gods fearful punishments, which hang over the heads of wicked men, should be an effectual reason to persuade the faithful to avoid their company, seeing that as the Lord doth often spare the wicked for the godlies sake, as appeareth, Gen. 18. 32. so he doth sometimes inflict temporal punishments upon the faithful, because they are in the company of ungodly men, as appeareth in the example of Lot, consorting himself with the 1Sodomites, Gen. 14. & 19. and of Jehoshaphat entertaining near familiarity and friendship with wicked Ahab, 1. King. 22. Those therefore who would not be destroyed with Corah and his accomplices, must separate themselves from them, Numb. 16. 26. and they must come out of Babylon, who will not 2be partakers of her plagues, Apoc. 18. 4.
Again, the imminent danger of Gods fearful punishmēts, which hang ouer the heads of wicked men, should be an effectuall reason to perswade the faithfull to auoid their company, seeing that as the Lord doth often spare the wicked for the godlies sake, as appeareth, Gen. 18. 32. so hee doth sometimes inflict temporall punishments vpon the faithful, because they are in the companie of vngodly men, as appeareth in the example of Lot, consorting himselfe with the 1Sodomites, Gen. 14. & 19. and of Iehosaphat entertaining neere familiaritie and friendship with wicked Ahab, 1. King. 22. Those therefore who would not be destroyed with Corah and his accomplices, must separate themselues frō them,