A69234:262
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 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.
But when as they made no vse neither of Gods former iudgements, nor yet of his patience & long suffering, but obstinately ⟨p. 85⟩and desperately went on in their sins, they increasing in wickednesse the Lord increaseth his punishments, and finally casts them off from being his people. The which finall reiection is signified and shadowed vnder the name Lo-ammi, the signification wherof is, Not my people, as it is expounded by God himselfe in this place: and after it is plainely expressed in the reason: for ye are not my people: therefore I will not be yours.
The Lord had in former times made choice of the children of Israel, amongst all the nations of the world to be his Church and people, according to that, Deut. 32. 9. For the 1Lords portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance: with them he made his covenant, and upon them, as being his own peculiar people, and proper family, he multiplied his benefits, with a more liberal hand, then upon any other nation. But when Israel observed not the condition of the covenant, but renounced the service of God, went a whoring after idols, and when neither Gods mercies would move them to love him, nor his judgements to fear him, nor both joined together could reclaim them from their wicked ways, and bring them to repentance, the Lord casteth them off as being a desperate cure, and finally rejecteth them from being his Church and people.