A69234:147
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.
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⟩and sometime shadows and pictures, for those faults which their children have committed; to the end, that so they may see and learn to dislike their faults in others, which they would not so easily discern, nor so unpartially condemn in themselves.
Secondly, wee may note our too too great loue of our selues, and too too small loue towards our neighbours; 1which maketh vs easily to discerne, and heauily and seuerely to censure other mens faults; whereas we are readie to excuse or defend the same, or greater in our selues: and therefore ••• Lord, when he would haue vs to see and condemne our sinnes, doth not offer them to our censure, as they are in our owne selues, whom we loue too much; but in the person of others, whom for the most part, we loue not so much as we should: as appeareth in the former examples, and in this place: wherein the Lord is faine to deale with vs, as tender mothers deale with their wanton and wayward children; whom when they would as willingly amend, as vnwillingly displease them, they vse to chide and beate the standers by, ⟨p. 40⟩and sometime shadowes and pictures, for those faults which their children haue committed; to the end, that so they may see and learne to dislike their faults in others, which they would not so easily discerne, nor so vnpartially condemne in themselues.