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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, because he was a Prophet sent, not to the Jews, but to the Israelites: he doth not meddle with their sins, which were many, nor denounceth Gods judgements against them; but leaving that to their own Prophets, he applieth himself to his own people, by all means seeking to humble and bring them to true repentance: and because this promise of salvation and mercy unto the Jews, was effectual to this purpose; therefore he reciteth it, that their hearts being wounded with grief and emulation, and their pride and insolency being beaten down, they might in some sort be prepared for true repentance.
Secondly, because he was a Prophet sent, not to the Iewes, but to the Israelites: he doth not meddle with their sinnes, which were many, nor denounceth Gods iudgements against them; but leauing that to their owne Prophets, he applieth himselfe to his owne people, by all meanes seeking to humble and bring them to true repentance: and because this promise of saluation and mercy vnto the Iewes, was effectuall to this purpose; therefore he reciteth it, that their hearts being wounded with griefe and emulation, and their pride and insolency being beaten downe, they might in some sort be prepared for true repentance.
And thus much for the understanding of the first point. The doctrines which from hence we learn, are these. First, Doctrines. 1that when the Lord exerciseth his judgements upon the wicked, he hath in the mean time a special care of the preservation of those that fear and serve him, to deliver them out of the middest of common calamities; as appeareth in this place: for though he suffered the people of Israel to be overthrown by their enemies; yet he so curbeth them in with the strong rain of his providence, that they could not enter into the next bordering country of Judah, whom they hated with equal malice, albeit they were much fewer in number and weaker in power, and in outward appearance altogether unable to make any resistance. And this is manifest by many such examples of like deliverances out of common evils. So was Noah preserved in the common deluge, Lot in the destruction of Sodom, the Israelites from the plagues