A69234:541
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.
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 1wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham, &c. that is, he redigged them. But as I take it, the word in this place hath a greater emphasis in it, and signifieth thus much; that howsoever the Lord seemed by his long deferring of punishment, and by the continuance of his mercy in suffering them still to enjoy his gifts, either to approve, or at least not to regard their wickedness, and gross abuse of his benefits, yet now he would take a new course with them, so as they should see that he was a just God, who would not let sin for ever go unpunished. In former times the Lord had multiplied his gifts upon them, as their corn, wine, oil, &c. and that oftentimes beyond all hope and expectation, in respect of natural causes, that so they might not rest upon the stars and planets, nor fear the signs, according to the custom of the Gentiles, but rely upon his all-sufficient providence, as himself commandeth them, Jer. 10. 2. And having 2his blessings poured upon them, as it were with his own immediate hand, they might learn hereby to acknowledge and praise him, as the author of these his gifts. But when notwithstanding all this they would not learn hereby to praise the Lord, as being the cause of all their benefits, but ascribed ⟨p. 218⟩them to their Idols, the Lord threateneth that he would return and alter his former course, by depriving them of all his blessings, even when in respect of inferior causes and means they seemed most assured of them; that so if his extraordinary manner of bestowing them would not, yet his extraordinary taking them away, might move them to acknowledge that he alone was the bestower of them.
I will returne and take away, &c. Some resolue these words thus: I will receiue, or resume my corne: because the former verbe in the Hebrew phrase, hath in it sometimes the nature of an aduerbe. So