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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.
And this is the first comparison, whereby he describeth and aggravateth the misery which he threateneth to bring upon them. The second is, that he would make her as a wilderness, or the wilderness, as the article prefixed portendeth; where he alludeth to the desert wilderness, in which the children of Israel were led 40. years. Others resolve it rather thus, And will place her as in the wilderness, that is, bring her into the same condition wherein she was in the wilderness. But the other translation better pleaseth me, seeing it is without addition of any word: and seeing it is likely he threateneth here a far worse state then that, which at this time she lived in, because then she enjoyed Gods presence, she was his spouse, she was led and fed, defended and sustained by the Lord her husband. And therefore I think rather he threateneth to make her like that wilderness, that is, to make her self desert and barren of all his gifts and graces, temporal and spiritual, to suffer her to be inhabited of her vices and corruptions, as it were with so many wild beasts, to lay her kingdom, country and cities waste like a wilderness, being overrun, burnt and spoiled by their enemies: as the Lord threateneth, Deut. 28. 51. Levit. 26. 131. 32.
And this is the first comparison, whereby hee describeth and aggrauateth the miserie which hee threatneth to bring vpon them. The second is, that he would make her as a wildernesse, or the wildernesse, as the article prefixed portendeth; where he alludeth to the desert wildernesse, in which the children of Israel were led 40. yeeres. Others resolue it rather thus, And wil place her as in the wildernesse, that is, bring her into the same condition wherein shee was in the wildernesse. But the other translation better pleaseth me, seeing it is without addition of any word: and seeing it is likely hee threatneth here a farre worse state then that, which at this time she liued in, because then she inioyed Gods presence, she was his spouse, she was led and fed, defended and sustained by the Lord her husband. And therefore I thinke rather he threatneth to make her like that wildernesse, that is, to make her selfe desert and barraine of all his gifts and graces, temporall and spirituall, to suffer her to be inhabited of her vices and corruptions, as it were with so many wild beasts, to lay her kingdome, countrie and cities waste like a wildernesse, being ouerrunne, burnt and spoiled by their enemies: as the Lord threatneth,