A69234:261
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.
But howsoever the Lord goeth forward in the denunciation of judgements, yet it is not altogether without mercy: for before he utterly rejecteth them he interposeth a convenient distance of time between this and the former judgement, that in the mean while they might repent and so escape this last punishment. And this also is signified by the weaning of Loru-chamah before Lo-ammi is conceived. For though he had condemned them to perpetual captivity, yet he doth not presently exclude them out of that covenant which he had made with their fathers, whereby they became his people, but for a time he patiently waited for their conversion, that so they might still retain the name of Gods people, and attain unto the salvation of their souls, though their bodies were enthralled in a perpetual servitude.
But howsoeuer the Lord goeth forward in the denunciation of iudgements, yet it is not altogether without mercy: for before he vtterly reiecteth them he interposeth a conuenient distance of time between this and the former iudgement, that in the meane while they might repent and so escape this last punishment. And this also is signified by the weaning of Loru-chamah before Lo-ammi is conceiued. For though he had condemned them to perpetual captiuitie, yet he doth not presently exclude them out of that couenant which he had made with their fathers, wherby they became his people, but for a time hee patiently waited for their conuersion, that so they might still retaine the name of Gods people, and attaine vnto the saluation of their soules, though their bodies were inthralled in a perpetuall seruitude.
But when as they made no use neither of Gods former judgements, nor yet of his patience & long suffering, but obstinately ⟨p. 85⟩and desperately went on in their sins, they increasing in wickedness the Lord increaseth his punishments, and finally casts them off from being his people. The which final rejection is signified and shadowed under the name Lo-ammi, the signification whereof is, Not my people, as it is expounded by God himself in this place: and after it is plainly expressed in the reason: for ye are not my people: therefore I will not be yours.