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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 inscription is set down, verse, 1. The word of the Verse 1 Lord which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzzia, Jothan, Ahaz, and Hezechia, Kings of Judah; and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, King of Israel. This inscription is prefixed for these ends: First, to make the hearer or reader attentive; in that it is not the word of Hosea himself, or of mortal man, but of the everliving God.
THe inscription is set downe, verse, 1. The word of the Verse 1 Lord which came to Hosea the sonne of Beeri, in the dayes of Vzzia, Iothan, Ahaz, and Hezechia, Kings of Iudah; and in the daies of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash, King of Israel. This inscription is prefixed for these ends: First, to make the hearer or reader attentiue; in that it is not the word of Hosea himselfe, or of mortall man, but of the euerliuing God.
Secondly, to gain authority unto, and to show the undoubted truth and certainty of this prophecy; in that it is the word of the Lord, not the device of man uttered after the things contained therein were come to pass, but revealed to Hosea, and by him to all the people long before the things were accomplished, not in an uncertain time, but in the reign of these Kings here named.
Secondly, to gaine authority vnto, and to shew the vndoubted truth and certaintie of this prophecie; in that it is the word of the Lord, not the deuice of man vttered after the things contained therein were come to passe, but reueiled to Hosea, and by him to all the people long before the things were accomplished, not in an vncertaine time, but in the raigne of these Kings here named.
Thirdly, that hereby we might be helped and furthered in the understanding of the whole prophecy; for knowing in what time and in whose reign these prophecies were delivered, we may in the books of the Kings and Chronicles, read the story of those times, and so come to the knowledge of the state of the Church and Common-wealth under the government of these Kings, which will give no small light for the understanding of the prophecy.