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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.
The use which we are to make hereof is, that we do not neglect Gods merciful visitations and fatherly corrections, ⟨p. 92⟩lest the Lord seeing us uncorrigible, likewise reject us, as he did the Jews, for If God spared not the natural branches, let us take heed lest he do not spare us, who are but wild branches, as the Apostle reasoneth, Rom. 11. 21.1
The vse which we are to make hereof is, that wee doe not neglect Gods mercifull visitations and fatherly corrections, ⟨p. 92⟩lest the Lord seeing vs vncorrigible, likewise reiect vs, as he did the Iewes, for If God spared not the naturall branches, let vs take heed lest he doe not spare vs, who are but wild branches, as the Apostle reasoneth, Rom. 11. 21.1
- 1Rom. 11. 21. The Prophets holy boldness in delivering his message.Rom. 11. 21. The Prophets holy bouldnes in deliuering his message.
Fifthly, we are to observe, that when the Prophet threateneth against the people their final rejection, they were in a most flourishing and prosperous estate, and therefore no doubt giving small credit to the Prophets words, it was an embassy exceeding dangerous, exposing him to the malice and outrages of an insolent people. But yet notwithstanding remembering who had sent him on his message he overcometh all these difficulties, and faithfully delivereth the word of God which was put into his mouth.