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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 effect of the Churches afflictions. The second is expressed in these words, Then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband, for at that time was I better then now. In which words is contained the Churches repentance, and the reason moving her hereunto. The first is expressed in these words, Then shall she say, I will go and return unto my first husband: that is, after she seeth her self crossed in her wicked courses, and so hedged in with afflictions, that she cannot follow her Idols, and enjoy her former prosperity, after she hath long in vain sought for help and deliverance at the hands of her Idols, and hath now no hope by their means, either to come out of her present misery, or to enjoy her former prosperity, being destitute of all other help; then she shall say, that is, she shall resolve and determine, yea and also profess this her purpose and resolution, that she would no longer sit still in this misery, and suffer her self to be swallowed up of grief, and desperation; but she ⟨p. 202⟩would go, and forsaking her lovers, and adulterous Idols, return unto her first husband, who indeed alone deserved the name of a husband, seeing the other were but lovers, seducers, and adulterers.
And this is the first effect of the Churches afflictions. The second is expressed in these words, Then shall she say, I will go and returne to my first husband, for at that time was I better then now. In which words is contained the Churches repentance, and the reason mouing her hereunto. The first is expressed in these words, Then shall she say, I will go and returne vnto my first husband: that is, after she seeth her selfe crossed in her wicked courses, and so hedged in with afflictions, that she cannot follow her Idols, and enioy her former prosperitie, after she hath long in vaine sought for helpe and deliuerance at the hands of her Idols, and hath now no hope by their meanes, either to come out of her present miserie, or to enioy her former prosperitie, being destitute of all other helpe; then she shall say, that is, she shall resolue and determine, yea and also professe this her purpose and resolution, that she would no longer sit still in this miserie, and suffer her selfe to be swallowed vp of griefe, and desperation; but shee ⟨p. 202⟩would go, and forsaking her louers, and adulterous Idols, returne vnto her first husband, who indeed alone deserued the name of a husband, seeing the other were but louers, seducers, and adulterers.