A69234:1468
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.
The use hereof serveth to show the wretched and base estate ⟨p. 313⟩of rebellious and unrepentant sinners, seeing howsoever 1they may ruffle it in their bravery, be honourable in their titles, and have the first place and chief seat wheresoever they come, yet are they no better then brute beasts; yea in truth they are far worse, as being in their disposition whilst they live more malicious, ungrateful and rebellious, and after death far more miserable; for well were it with them, if after they have led a brutish life, they might in their death be like unto the beasts which perish; but it shall be far otherwise, their death being unto them but an entrance into death eternal, and a passage into the torments of hell fire.
The vse hereof serueth to shew the wretched and base estate ⟨p. 313⟩of rebellious and vnrepentant sinners, seeing howsoeuer 1they may ruffle it in their brauerie, be honorable in their titles, and haue the first place and chiefe seate wheresoeuer they come, yet are they no better then brute beasts; yea in truth they are far worse, as being in their disposition whilest they liue more malicious, vngratefull and rebellious, and after death far more miserable; for well were it with them, if after they haue led a brutish life, they might in their death be like vnto the beasts which perish; but it shall be farre otherwise, their death being vnto them but an entrance into death eternall, and a passage into the torments of hell fire.
- 1The wretched estate of impenitent sinners.
Secondly, this showeth the malignant quality of sin,