A69234:471
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.
But in respect of spiritual and eternal punishments, the Lord doth not inflict them upon the children and subjects for the sins of the parents and governors positively, unless they likewise partake with them in their sins, and follow their wicked example; howsoever he may justly for ⟨p. 182⟩1their sins, lay upon them privative punishments, by withholding from them his grace, and the gifts of his holy spirit, which he is not bound to give; of which they being deprived, run into sin, and so make themselves obnoxious to positive punishments. Now these children of which the Prophet speaketh, were not only borne of an idolatrous mother, but also they themselves lived and continued in that idolatry in which they were bred and instructed.
But in respect of spirituall and eternall punishments, the Lord doth not inflict them vpon the children and subiects for the sinnes of the parents and gouernours positiuely, vnlesse they likewise partake with them in their sinnes, and follow their wicked example; howsoeuer hee may iustly for ⟨p. 182⟩1their sins, lay vpon them priuatiue punishments, by withholding from them his grace, and the gifts of his holy spirit, which he is not bound to giue; of which they being depriued, runne into sinne, and so make themselues obnoxious to positiue punishments. Now these children of which the Prophet speaketh, were not onely borne of an idolatrous mother, but also they themselues liued and continued in that idolatry in which they were bred and instructed.
And this is the more principal cause why these children are punished, because they liked and approved, embraced and lived in the idolatry of their mother; for not simply to have been the children and members of an idolatrous Church, nor to have been brought up and instructed in her idolatries, is a cause which moveth the Lord to reject any; if afterwards they hate and forsake the idolatry of their mother, and love and embrace the pure and sincere worship of God. The which was the state of many of Gods children in the common apostasy of the Israelites; and is the state of many who have come out of the spiritual Babylon, being begotten unto God by the immortal seed of his word.