A69234:381
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 which words by others are otherwise translated and 1expounded. Some read them thus: When as the great day of Jezreel shall be, or shall have been: some thus; Although great shall be the day of Izreel. Both understanding by day of Jezreel, the day of the calamity of the people, when they were overthrown in the valley of Jezreel, and so led captive by their enemies. According to which translation, they make this to be the sense of the place; that after this great destruction, the Lord would cause this great deliverance; or although this great calamity should certainly befall them, ⟨p. 138⟩yet this should not hinder the performance of Gods promises, concerning the prosperous estate of the Church, under the government of Christ their head.
The which words by others are otherwise translated and 1expounded. Some reade them thus: When as the great day of Izreel shall be, or shall haue been: some thus; Although great shall be the day of Izreel. Both vnderstanding by day of Izreel, the day of the calamitie of the people, when they were ouerthrowne in the valley of Izreel, and so led captiue by their enemies. According to which translation, they make this to be the sense of the place; that after this great destruction, the Lord would cause this great deliuerance; or although this great calamity should certainely befall them, ⟨p. 138⟩yet this should not hinder the performance of Gods promises, concerning the prosperous estate of the Church, vnder the gouernment of Christ their head.
- 1The exposition.
But as I take it, we are not to understand here by this great day of Jezreel, the day of their great affliction and calamity, but the day of their great felicity and happiness, not the day of their overthrow and captivity, but of their restoring and deliverance out of their enemies hands: for in the fifth verse he had spoken of this judgement, and now he speaketh only of mercy and deliverance, whereby he would comfort Gods people, who were dejected with the former threatenings: as appeareth by that both which went before, and that also which followeth.