A69234:527
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.
The first is expressed in these words: And she did not know that I gave her corn, &c. By this conjunction copulative he knitteth these words with the former, and showeth that God justly punished them, seeing to their other sins they added another kind of gross ingratitude: as though he should say, And moreover, besides the sins before spoken of, she hath showed her self grossly ungrateful, both in not acknowledging God the author of the benefits which she enjoyed, and in abusing them to Gods dishonour in the service of her Idols, and therefore it is just with God to afflict her with the former and following punishments, that she may learn to ascribe unto God the praise of his own gifts, and may desist to abuse them by bestowing them upon Baal.
The first is expressed in these words: And she did not know that I gaue her corne, &c. By this coniunction copulatiue he knitteth these words with the former, and sheweth that God iustly punished them, seeing to their other sinnes they added another kinde of grosse ingratitude: as though he should say, And moreouer, besides the sinnes before spoken of, she hath shewed her selfe grosly vngratefull, both in not acknowledging God the author of the benefits which she enioyed, and in abusing them to Gods dishonour in the seruice of her Idols, and therefore it is iust with God to afflict her with the former and following punishments, that she may learne to ascribe vnto God the praise of his owne gifts, and may desist to abuse them by bestowing them vpon Baal.
And this is the coherence of this verse with the former. Now let us come to the words themselves, in which is expressed the party offending, and the sin committed: the first in this word, And she, which hath an emphasis in it, and serveth to aggravate the sin. For though the Heathen nations should not have known or acknowledged the Lord to have been the giver of the benefits which they enjoyed, it had been no such great wonder, seeing they had only the light of nature, and the book of the creatures to look upon; but that the people of Israel should be ignorant hereof, was more then blockish senselessness and blind ingratitude, seeing they had the book of God wherein it was revealed unto them, that they had all the benefits which they enjoyed from the mere blessing of God, that the Lord gave them this land flowing with milk and honey by his own omnipotent power, casting out their enemies before them; that from him they had the first and latter rain, whereby their land was made fruitful; and seeing that they were entered into possession of all these benefits whilst they served the Lord alone, before they worshipped their Idols, so that they had no show of reason to ascribe Gods gifts unto them, which they already enjoyed before they served them: and therefore the Lord might justly take up that complaint against them: