A69234:411
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 for the consequent duty to be performed of the faithful, after themselves are made partakers of the Evangelical benefits. In the next place the Prophet returneth to the legal threatenings; in these words: Vers. 2. Plead (or, contend) with your mother, plead with her, Vers. 2 for she is not my wife (or, as the word is sometimes taken, that she is not my wife) neither am I her husband; but let her take away (or, that she may take away) her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts. Where the Lord commandeth that a divorce should be proclaimed between him and the Israelites, and withal showeth the cause or end of this denunciation, namely, that they might repent and turn from their spiritual whoredoms.
ANd so much for the consequent dutie to bee performed of the faithfull, after themselues are made partakers of the Euangelicall benefits. In the next place the Prophet returneth to the legall threatnings; in these words: Vers. 2. Pleade (or, contend) with your mother, pleade with her, Vers. 2 for she is not my wife (or, as the word is sometimes taken, that shee is not my wife) neither am I her husband; but let her take away (or, that shee may take away) her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts. Where the Lord commandeth that a diuorce should be proclaimed betweene him and the Israelites, and withall sheweth the cause or end of this denunciation, namely, that they might repent and turne from their spirituall whoredomes.
But let us come to the exposition of the words, and after 1observe the doctrines which arise out of them. Plead with your mother. These words may seem to contradict the former: for there the Lord promiseth, that he would gather his Church, and unite them unto Christ, that he might be her head, she his members, he her husband, and she his spouse; and now presently he threateneth that he will give her a bill of divorce, and break off the marriage between them. But we are to know, that the former words were an Evangelical promise, which was not presently to be performed, but in the time of the Gospel, after the coming of Christ: but in the mean time because the Israelites were not terrified with the former threatenings, nor allured to repentance by Gods gracious promises, therefore having by y former consolations comforted Gods