A69234:542
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.
Now the things of which the Lord threateneth to deprive them of, are their corn and wine, their wool and flax, all which before they had ascribed to their Idols, and abused to their service; under which particulars here as before, we are to understand not only all things appertaining to their food and apparel, but all other commodities belonging to this life: So 1. Tim. 6. 8. When we have food and raiment, let us therewith 1be content.
Now the things of which the Lord threatneth to depriue them of, are their corne and wine, their wooll and flaxe, all which before they had ascribed to their Idols, and abused to their seruice; vnder which particulars here as before, wee are to vnderstand not only all things appertaining to their food and apparell, but all other commodities belonging to this life: So 1. Tim. 6. 8. When we haue food and raiment, let vs therewith 1be content.
And further, we are to note that the Lord calleth these things his, my corn and my wine, &c. whereby he meeteth with the erroneous conceit of the Israelites, who imagined that these blessings of God were given unto them by their Idols, as a reward of their service; and therefore that they were so become their own, that they might use or rather abuse them at their pleasure, vers. 5. But the Lord telleth them, that they were not their Idols gifts, but his blessings; which because they did not hold of him, as of the grand Lord and owner of them, therefore he would (as he justly might) take away from them these things which were his own, unto which they had no right; that so they might learn to give unto him the praise of his own gifts.