A69234:420
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.
Now we are further to observe, that he redoubleth the ⟨p. 157⟩word, plead, or contend: whereby he implieth the importune impudency of the people, which was such, that their mouths would not easily be stopped, but still they would calumniate Gods justice and truth; and therefore with greater earnestness (which is often expressed by such redoubled speeches) he biddeth them to plead against their mother again and again, and to lay the fault where it was, not upon God, but upon themselves. As if he should have said; Do not plead and expostulate with me, in that your mother is divorced, and you rejected as an adulterous issue; for the husband is not to be blamed for putting away an adulteress, but she rather for her filthiness and unfaithfulness: and therefore, seeing your mother hath forsaken me, and prostituted her self to idols, acquit me of all wrong and injury, and contend and expostulate with her, in that by her unfaithfulness and uncleanness, she hath moved me justly to divorce her from me, and to reject you as being an adulterous issue of an adulterous mother.
Now we are further to obserue, that hee redoubleth the ⟨p. 157⟩word, pleade, or contend: whereby he implieth the importune impudency of the people, which was such, that their mouthes would not easily be stopped, but still they would calumniate Gods iustice and truth; and therefore with greater earnestnesse (which is often expressed by such redoubled speeches) he biddeth them to plead against their mother againe and againe, and to lay the fault where it was, not vpon God, but vpon themselues. As if he should haue said; Doe not pleade and expostulate with mee, in that your mother is diuorced, and you reiected as an adulterous issue; for the husband is not to be blamed for putting away an adulteresse, but shee rather for her filthinesse and vnfaithfulnesse: and therefore, seeing your mother hath forsaken me, and prostituted her selfe to idols, acquit me of all wrong and iniury, and contend and expostulate with her, in that by her vnfaithfulnesse and vncleannesse, she hath moued me iustly to diuorce her from me, and to reiect you as being an adulterous issue of an adulterous mother.