A69234:501
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.
Secondly, because, though the Lord lay these thorns in our way, yet through our negligence and security, though 1we see the hedge, and feel the pricks of affliction, piercing our souls and bodies, we oftentimes neither consider who hath set this hedge in our way, nor for what cause, but are ready to ascribe our afflictions to chance and fortune, to our own want of providence, to the malice of our enemies, or some secondary cause; therefore the Lord willeth them to behold, and to consider, that he it was that set this hedge in their way, and for this cause, in that they had resolved to go ⟨p. 197⟩forward in their sins, that knowing the meritorious cause of their punishment to be their sins, they might labour to take them away by true repentance; and knowing the Lord to be the author of them, they might humble themselves under his hand, and implore mercy and forgiveness.
Secondly, because, though the Lord lay these thornes in our way, yet through our negligence and securitie, though 1we see the hedge, and feele the prickes of affliction, pearcing our soules and bodies, we oftentimes neither consider who hath set this hedge in our way, nor for what cause, but are readie to ascribe our afflictions to chance and fortune, to our owne want of prouidence, to the malice of our enemies, or some secondarie cause; therefore the Lord willeth them to behold, and to consider, that he it was that set this hedge in their way, and for this cause, in that they had resolued to go ⟨p. 197⟩forward in their sinnes, that knowing the meritorious cause of their punishment to be their sinnes, they might labour to take them away by true repentance; and knowing the Lord to be the author of them, they might humble themselues vnder his hand, and implore mercie and forgiuenesse.
- 1We do not acknowledge Gods hand in our afflictions.