A69234:165
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 other name Diblaim, some take to be a patronymic, signifying the harlots country, and not her kindred; that she was an inhabitant of that waste and desolate wilderness Diblam, or Diblath, of which mention is made, Ezech. 6. 14. 1Jer. 48. 22. and that she was called a daughter of Diblaim, according to the like phrase of speech used in the Scripture; as a daughter of Zion, of Israel, of Tyre, and such like.
The other name Diblaim, some take to be a patronymick, signifying the harlots country, and not her kindred; that she was an inhabitant of that waste and desolate wildernesse Diblam, or Diblath, of which mention is made, Ezech. 6. 14. 1Ier. 48. 22. and that she was called a daughter of Diblaim, according to the like phrase of speech vsed in the Scripture; as a daughter of Sion, of Israel, of Tyre, and such like.
From which they gather the harlots disposition; that she loved to frequent and to live in desert and solitary places, where she might with more secrecy, and without controlment, commit fornication with her lovers: and that hereby is resembled the conditions of the Synagogue of the Israelites, who according to the custom of the Gentiles, erected altars in groves, woods, and hilly places, to the end they might commit spiritual whoredom with their idols; as appeareth