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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 so much concerning the divorce between the Lord and the Church of Israel. In the next place is the cause thereof expressed, to wit, the sin of the people; especially their idolatry and unthankfulness; and afterwards the punishments due unto their sins are threatened. The first is contained in these words: Vers. 5. For their mother hath Vers. 5 played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and ⟨p. 186⟩my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. In which words are contained, first their idolatry and spiritual 1whoredoms, and secondly their ingratitude. Their idolatry is first plainly expressed, and afterwards aggravated. It is expressed in these words: For their mother hath played the harlot. Where still he continueth the allegory, of marriage, adultery and divorce; showing and proving that there was just cause why the mother was divorced, and the children rejected, because the mother had played the harlot, and so her children were an adulterous issue. Neither had she only before or after committed whoredom, but even in the generation of these her children she had conceived them of the seed of fornication; for otherwise howsoever she was a harlot, yet her children should have been legitimate, and therefore unlawfully disinherited: but they were not only borne of an harlot, but also in adultery, and therefore they were the children of fornication.
ANd so much concerning the diuorce between the Lord and the Church of Israel. In the next place is the cause thereof expressed, to wit, the sinne of the people; especiallie their idolatrie and vnthankfulnnsse; and afterwards the punishments due vnto their sinnes are threatned. The first is contained in these words: Vers. 5. For their mother hath Vers. 5 plaied the harlot; she that conceiued them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will goe after my louers, that giue me my bread and ⟨p. 186⟩