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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 like place unto this we have, Isaiah 50. 1. Thus saith the Lord; Where is the bill of your mothers divorcement, whom I have cast off? or who is the creditor unto whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities are ye sold, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken. Where the Lord expostulateth with the Jews concerning the cause of their rejection, and showeth that the cause was not in him, but in themselves: and this he proveth by an old rite and custom under the Law, which was, that those who were put away by the husband, had a bill of divorce given unto them; and that 1parents which were deeply indebted, sold their children to satisfy their creditors; as appeareth, Exod. 21. 7. 2. King. 4. 1. But I (saith the Lord) never put you away; for if I did, where 2is the bill of divorcement? neither did I sell you, for where is the creditor to whom I stand indebted? And therefore the fault is not in me, but in your own iniquities, and in the transgressions of your mother, why you are sold, and she divorced. So Jer. 3. 8. Ezech. 16.3
The like place vnto this we haue, Esay 50. 1. Thus saith the Lord; Where is the bill of your mothers diuorcement, whom I haue cast off? or who is the creditour vnto whom I haue solde you? Behold, for your iniquities are ye sold, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken. Where the Lord expostulateth with the Iews concerning the cause of their reiection, and sheweth that the cause was not in him, but in themselues: and this he proueth by an olde rite and custome vnder the Law, which was, that those who were put away by the husband, had a bill of diuorce giuen vnto them; and that 1parents which were deeply indebted, sold their children to satisfie their creditors; as appeareth,