A69234:1505
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.
Yea, and this they did not in any modest or shamefast manner, but shamefully. The word here used may be referred either to the manner of their requiring rewards, that shamelessly and with a brazen forehead, they called for bribes, and covenanted before hand to have rewards for any business which they dispatched; or it may be referred to the rewards which they required, namely, that they called for shameful rewards, either in respect of their quantity, that they required great rewards, for small businesses; or in respect of their quality, that they were the rewards of unrighteousness, given and received for the betraying of justice and truth, for the upholding of the wicked, and discountenancing of the just; for the clearing or acquitting of the faulty, and for the condemning of the innocent.
Yea, and this they did not in any modest or shamefast maner, but shamefully. The word here vsed may be referred either to the manner of their requiring rewards, that shamelesly and with a brasen forehead, they called for bribes, and couenanted before hand to haue rewards for any businesse which they dispatched; or it may be referred to the rewards which they required, namely, that they called for shamefull rewards, either in respect of their quantitie, that they required great rewards, for small businesses; or in respect of their qualitie, that they were the rewards of vnrighteousnesse, giuen and receiued for the betraying of iustice and truth, for the vpholding of the wicked, and discountenancing of the iust; for the cleering or acquitting of the faultie, and for the condemning of the innocent.
And this is the meaning of the words. The doctrines which we learn out of them are these: first, that drunkenness The do∣ctrines. is an odious and loathsome vice which stinketh in the 1nostrils of God and men. It is abominable to God, as in many other respects, so especially because the drunkard maketh his belly his god, unfitteth himself for all duties of Gods worship and service, and most grossly and ungratefully abuseth his good creatures, to the furthering of him in wickedness, ⟨p. 333⟩