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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.
Fourthly, we may here observe, that when a people professing 1religion, do cast off the yoke of Gods government, and in the pride and stubbornness of their hearts contemn all means of their conversion, then the judgements of God lie waiting at the door, and are ready to enter upon them; and because they will not submit themselves to be ruled by the sceptre of Gods kingdom, he will thrust them from under his protection, cause them to be led into captivity, and suffer their enemies to tyrannize & insult over them. So in this place, because the Israelites were become like unruly Heifers, and would not bear the yoke of Gods government, he threateneth that they should become the captives and slaves of their enemies, and under their tyrannical thraldom ⟨p. 314⟩endure manifold miseries and calamities. Many examples might be brought to clear this point. In the time of the Judges, when the people rebelled against the Lord, contemned his word, and denied him their service and allegiance, he gave them over into the hands of their enemies, as the Canaanites, Midianites, Philistines, and divers others. When the Jews would not serve the Lord their sovereign King, he made them serve tyrannical Lords in a strange country, both before and since the coming of Christ. When Manasseh and Zedechias would not regard the word of the Lord, but persecuted his Prophets, and made war as it were against Heaven, the Lord pulled down their pride, and broke their stubborn and rebellious hearts with the manifold calamities of a miserable captivity. And this is that which the Lord threateneth against the rebellious potentates of the earth, who in furious rage combined themselves against the kingdom of Jesus Christ; namely, that he would vex them in his sore displeasure: and because they would not be ruled by the sceptre of his word, he would crash them with his sceptre of iron, and break them in pieces like a potters vessel, Psalm. 2. 2. 5. 9. So our 2Saviour Christ hath taught us, that those his enemies who had shaken off the yoke of his government, and would not let him reign over them, should be haled into his presence and slain before his face, Luk. 19. 27