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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
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Secondly, we may observe in the example of the Israelites, 1how soon we forget Gods judgements when they are once past, making no good use of them, nor amending those faults for which we were punished: but when the affliction is once past, we securely go forward in sin, and become worse then we were before; as though now God had emptied his quiver, and had not one arrow of wrath and vengeance more to shoot at us. A notable example hereof we have in Pharaoh; yea and in our own times: for how few is ⟨p. 88⟩the number of those, who have made any profitable use of Gods late visitation? Nay, how many are there, who (as though having escaped that, they were privileged from all others) are grown worse and worse? This is a miserable evil, of which the Lord complaineth, Esa. 1. 5. and the forerunner 2of utter destruction. For as the father when he seeth his child (after he hath often corrected him for his faults) grow thereby more stubborn and disobedient, judgeth him past all grace, and without hope of amendment, and therefore giveth him over and thrusteth him out of his house: So doth God deal with us all.
Secondly, we may obserue in the example of the Israelites, 1how soone we forget Gods iudgements when they are once past, making no good vse of them, nor amending those faults for which we were punished: but when the affliction is once past, we securely go forward in sinne, and become worse then we were before; as though now God had emptied his quiuer, and had not one arrow of wrath and vengeance more to shoote at vs. A notable example hereof we haue in Pharaoh; yea and in our owne times: for how few is ⟨p. 88⟩the number of those, who haue made any profitable vse of Gods late visitation? Nay, how many are there, who (as though hauing escaped that, they were priuileged from all others) are growne worse and worse? This is a miserable euill, of which the Lord complaineth,