A69234:494
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.
In which words are contained two things: first a punishment 1denounced, and secondly, the effects of this punishment in the people. In the first we are to consider the parties, against whom it is denounced, and the nature and quality thereof. The parties are those amongst the idolatrous Israelites, who (though they were not yet called) belonged to Gods election: for though the Prophets speech be directed to all those idolatrous Israelites, who said, I will go after my lovers: yet it is to be understood Synecdochically, of those alone amongst them, whom it was Gods purpose to convert & save. For not only the reprobate, but also the elect fall into this sin of idolatry, sometimes of ignorance, and sometimes of infirmity, being either drawn with fear, or allured by profit, pleasure or preferment: & such were these unto whom the Prophet speaketh, who said that they would go after their lovers, telling them, that the Lord would cross them in their resolution, and stay them in the middest of their course.
In which words are contained two things: first a punishment 1denounced, and secondly, the effects of this punishment in the people. In the first we are to consider the parties, against whom it is denounced, and the nature and qualitie thereof. The parties are those amongst the idolatrous Israelites, who (though they were not yet called) belonged to Gods election: for though the Prophets speech be directed to all those idolatrous Israelites, who said, I will go after my louers: yet it is to be vnderstood Synecdochically, of those alone amongst them, whom it was Gods purpose to conuert & saue. For not only the reprobate, but also the elect fall into this sin of idolatrie, sometimes of ignorance, and sometimes of infirmity, being either drawne with feare, or allured by profit, pleasure or prefermēt: & such were these vnto whō the Prophet speaketh, who said yt they would go after their louers, telling them, that the Lord would crosse them in their resolution, and stay them in the middest of their course.
- 1The exposition.