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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
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And these are the benefits, of which he threateneth to spoil ⟨p. 171⟩them. Now the manner and nature of their stripping and spoiling is further described and illustrated by divers comparisons; for first he threateneth to strip them, and to leave them as destitute of all his benefits, as they were at the day of their birth, in these words; and set her as in the day that she was borne.
And these are the benefits, of which he threatneth to spoile ⟨p. 171⟩them. Now the manner and nature of their stripping and spoyling is further described and illustrated by diuers comparisons; for first hee threatneth to strip them, and to leaue them as destitute of all his benefits, as they were at the day of their birth, in these words; and set her as in the day that shee was borne.
By the day of the children of Israels birth, we may either understand the day of their forefather Abraham his calling out of an idolatrous nation, that he might be the father of the faithful; or the day of the peoples deliverance out of the bondage of Egypt, which I take to be the more probable, because he speaketh not here of the birth of one man, but of the whole nation. Now this day of the peoples birth was a time wherein they were in great misery, poverty, impotency and manifold extremities, and therefore not unfitly compared to a child's birth, seeing in many things it resembleth it, in regard of the wretchedness thereof, and that both in respect of their persons, and also in respect of their state. And first for their bodies, as the child is borne so impotent that it is unable to resist the weakest enemy; so they came out of Egypt weak, unskilful, and unarmed, altogether unable to resist their enemies the Egyptians. And so in respect of their souls, as the child is borne defiled in his blood, as it is described, Ezech. 16. 6. so 1