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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.
The second thing which hence we learn is, that though God doth not rashly punish, yet he will not suffer the wicked altogether to escape: for though the Lord doth not punish every day, yet in the day of his visitation he will not spare. And therefore let us keep our selves undefiled from sin: or if we have stained our consciences with sin, and have as it were in these books registered up our faults; let us by a lively faith apply unto us the blood of Christ, whereby these spots and writings may be washed away: for if they remain until the day of Gods visitation, they will give in such witness and evidence against us, as will convict and condemn us.
The second thing which hence we learne is, that though God doth not rashly punish, yet he will not suffer the wicked altogether to escape: for though the Lord doth not punish euery day, yet in the day of his visitation he will not spare. And therefore let vs keepe our selues vndefiled from sinne: or if we haue stained our consciences with sinne, and haue as it were in these bookes registred vp our faults; let vs by a liuely faith apply vnto vs the blood of Christ, whereby these spots and writings may be washed away: for if they remaine vntill the day of Gods visitation, they will giue in such witnesse and euidence against vs, as will conuict and condemne vs.
In the third place is set down the sin for which the Lord 1threateneth to visit, in these words: The blood of Iizreel. The which words of divers men, are diversly expounded: but leaving to set down all mens judgements, because many of them have little likelihood of trueth, I will only propound two which seem most probable. Some think that by the blood of Iisreel, is understood the slaughter of Achabs family and posterity, Jezebel, Joram, and his seventy sons, which were all destroyed by Jehu. Others imagine this cannot be the meaning of the words; because this was an action commanded by God: 2. King. 9 6, 7, 8. and commended in Jehu, after it was by him performed, and by God rewarded: