A69234:211
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.
From whence we learn, first, that although Princes and Doctrines. superiors shall be most severely punished, because they ⟨p. 65⟩have not only sinned themselves, but also by their authority 1and example have drawn and allured their inferiors into like wickedness: yet the subjects who have obeyed their lawful authority in unlawful things, and have followed their example in evil, shall not be excused; but as they have been partakers with them in their sins, so likewise they shall be partakers with them in their punishments. For if authority be an argument to prevail with them, then the authority of God, which is supreme, should be of greater force to continue them in holy obedience, then the authority of man to draw them to sin: if examples do strongly allure and persuade, then the example of God himself, and of Jesus Christ, should more forcibly restrain us from sin, then of the greatest Prince in the world to entice us to commit it.
From whence we learne, first, that although Princes and Doctrines. superiours shall be most seuerely punished, because they ⟨p. 65⟩haue not onely sinned themselues, but also by their authority 1and example haue drawne and allured their inferiours into like wickednes: yet the subiects who haue obeyed their lawfull authority in vnlawful things, and haue followed their example in euill, shall not be excused; but as they haue been partakers with them in their sinnes, so likewise they shall be partakers with them in their punishments. For if authority be an argument to preuaile with them, then the authority of God, which is supreme, should be of greater force to continue them in holy obedience, then the authority of man to draw them to sinne: if examples doe strongly allure and perswade, then the example of God himselfe, and of Iesus Christ, should more forcibly restraine vs from sinne, then of the greatest Prince in the world to intice vs to commit it.
- 1The subject is not acquitted when his Prince leadeth him into sin.