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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 so much concerning the second degree of the Israelites punishment. The third followeth, which is their utter and final rejection: vers. 8. Now when she had weaned Vers. 8. 9. Lo-ruchamah, she conceived and bare a son. Vers. 9. Then God said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, therefore I will not be yours. In which words the third punishment is ⟨p. 84⟩first typically shadowed under the child's name, and afterwards plainly expressed in the reason rendered thereof.
ANd so much concerning the second degree of the Israelites punishment. The third followeth, which is their vtter and finall reiection: vers. 8. Now when shee had weaned Vers. 8. 9. Lo-ruchamah, she conceiued and bare a sonne. Vers. 9. Then God said, Cal his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, therefore I will not be yours. In which words the third punishment is ⟨p. 84⟩first typically shadowed vnder the childs name, and afterwards plainely expressed in the reason rendred thereof.
But before this third punishment is denounced, there is a certain space interposed between it and the former, which is signified vers. 8. Now when she had weaned Loru-chamah, &c. By the weaning of Loru-chamah, the Prophet typically showeth, that because the people were not reclaimed with the former punishments, the Lord would be so far from repealing his sentence of those judgements before denounced, that he would now ratify and confirm it; yea, and because their diseases were grown so desperate, that they were past all cure, and seeing neither mercies nor judgements would reclaim them, he would now inflict upon them a third judgement, more heavy then all the rest; namely, he would reject them from being his people. But yet he would not do this suddenly, but as the child is first weaned before it be taken from his nurse, so they should be weaned and restrained from their nurses the Prophets, and from the food of their souls, the milk 1