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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.
And these are the things signified by the sex. The next thing to be considered, is the name: Call her name lo-ruchamah. ⟨p. 69⟩The signification whereof is, without mercy, or, not obtaining mercy: or as the Apostle Paul expoundeth it, Rom. 9. 25. Not (through Gods mercy) beloved. The which name is 1given, to signify that the people of Israel, after they were led captive by the Assyrians, should never obtain, either presently, or for the time to come, Gods mercy, to be restored again into their Country.
And these are the things signified by the sexe. The next thing to be considered, is the name: Call her name lo-ruchamah. ⟨p. 69⟩The signification whereof is, without mercy, or, not obtaining mercy: or as the Apostle Paul expoundeth it, Rom. 9. 25. Not (through Gods mercy) beloued. The which name is 1giuen, to signifie that the people of Israel, after they were led captiue by the Assyrians, should neuer obtaine, either presently, or for the time to come, Gods mercy, to be restored againe into their Country.
And this is the meaning of these words, concerning the Doctrine. imposition of the name. The doctrines which arise from 1hence are divers. First, me may observe Gods gracious goodness, in his manner of punishing men for their sins: after he hath smitten them once, he doth not presently strike again; but he pauseth and giveth time and respite, that they may make profitable use of his former visitation, and amend their faults for which they were punished, that so he may not be moved to redouble their punishment; as it appeareth in his dealing with the Israelites in this place. Whereby it is manifest, that he taketh no pleasure in our pain and torment; but in punishing aimeth at our amendment, that so we may be eternally saved: and therefore, as he is hardly drawn to punish, so when he hath begun, he is loth to go forward; but having like a gracious father, given us a few stripes, he layeth the rod aside, expecting our amendment, that so he may no more punish us. And thus he dealt with the Israelites in the time of the Judges, & in the captivity of Babylon; and with us likewise, as at many other times, so especially in the days of Queen Mary, and in our late visitation.