A69234:540
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.
But let us come to the particulars. Vers. 9. Therefore I will Vers. 9 return and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax, lent to cover her shame. In which words he threateneth, that because 1the Israelites would not acknowledge the Lord, to be the author and bestower of those manifold benefits, which they enjoyed, but ungratefully ascribed the praise of them to their idols, therefore he would strip them of all his blessings, to the end, that they who could not learn in the time of their plenty, that the Lord had bestowed upon them these his gifts, might at least learn this lesson by the want of them.
But let vs come to the particulars. Vers. 9. Therefore I wil Vers. 9 returne and take away my corne in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recouer my wooll and my flaxe, lent to couer her shame. In which words hee threatneth, that because 1the Israelites would not acknowledge the Lord, to be the author and bestower of those manifold benefits, which they enioyed, but vngratefully ascribed the praise of them to their idols, therefore he would strip them of all his blessings, to the end, that they who could not learne in the time of their plentie, that the Lord had bestowed vpon them these his gifts, might at least learne this lesson by the want of them.
- 1The exposition.
I will return and take away, &c. Some resolve these words thus: I will receive, or resume my corn: because the former verb in the Hebrew phrase, hath in it sometimes the nature of an adverb. So Genes. 26. 18. Isaac returning, digged the 1