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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.
Secondly, the children of wicked parents may here learn 1carefully to flee their fathers vices, and to endeavour to perform holy obedience unto the Lord, that so they may be reconciled unto him: for if they follow their fathers steppes, the Lord will certainly punish in them, not only their own, but also their parents sin, in the day of his visitation.
Secondly, the children of wicked parents may here learne 1carefully to flee their fathers vices, and to indeuour to performe holy obedience vnto the Lord, that so they may bee reconciled vnto him: for if they follow their fathers steppes, the Lord will certainely punish in them, not only their own, but also their parents sinne, in the day of his visitation.
- 1Admonition to children of wicked parents.
The second thing which here we are to observe is, that God threateneth to begin his visitation with the King and 1his posterity, because their own sins were great and grievous, and also because they were accessory to the sins of the people; for whereas by their authority and good example, they might have restrained them from their open sins, and stirred them up to the profession and practise of righteousness and holiness, they contrariwise both by their law licensing idolatry, and by their practise living in it, drew the people to follow their example: and therefore the Lord first beginneth to punish them, because they were the first agents and movers unto sin.
The second thing which here wee are to obserue is, that God threatneth to begin his visitation with the King and 1