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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 for the meaning of this verse. The doctrines The Do∣ctrines. which arise out of them are these. First, we may observe the superstitious blindness of idolaters, who, when the Lord punisheth 1them for their idolatries, do not repent of their sins, and return unto the Lord, craving mercy, forgiveness, & release of their punishments: but rather, have their recourse unto their Idols, with more then ordinary devotion: serving them with their Pilgrimages, Vows, Invocations, Oblations, and other rites and ceremonies, wherewith they imagine they may be best pleased; supposing that their slackness ⟨p. 203⟩and remissness in these superstitious devotions, hath bin the cause of all their afflictions: whereas in truth their superstitions and idolatry, is the chief cause of all their miseries, and therefore the multiplying of them doth not release them of their punishment, but rather redoubleth it. An example whereof we have in this place, in Micah, Judg. 17. 13. Ahaziah, 2. King. 1. 2. and in the Papists, who when the Lord 2punisheth them for their idolatries, seek freedom and deliverance from the evils they suffer, by their vows, pilgrimages, prayers, and oblations to their Idols and Images; as though they could dry themselves being wet, by leaping into a river, or ease themselves being burnt, by leaping into the fire, Isaiah 1. 28. 29.3
And so much for the meaning of this verse. The doctrines The Do∣ctrines. which arise out of them are these. First, we may obserue the superstitious blindnes of idolaters, who, when the Lord punisheth 1them for their idolatries, do not repent of their sins, and returne vnto the Lord, crauing mercie, forgiuenes, & release of their punishmēts: but rather, haue their recourse vnto their Idols, with more then ordinarie deuotion: seruing them with their Pilgrimages, Vowes, Inuocations, Oblations, and other rites and ceremonies, wherewith they imagine they may be best pleased; supposing that their slacknes