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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 I will recover my wool, &c. The word here used signifieth, with strong hand to pluck away from one that which he unjustly possesseth. It is used, Gen. 31. 9. where Jacob saith, 1that God had taken away Labans substance, and given them unto him, because it was wrongfully possessed by Laban, seeing it belonged unto Jacob, as a reward of his painful service. So the Israelites are commanded to take away the Egyptians goods and to spoil them, because they wrongfully withheld them in their hands from the Israelites, seeing they were due to them for their great pains and tedious bondage, Exod. 3. 22. Others translate it thus: I will free and set at liberty my 2wool and my flax, &c. which cometh all to the same end: for when the creatures of God are unjustly possessed and abused to other ends, then those for which God hath given them, they may be said to be in a kind of bondage, from which they are freed when God plucketh them from such 3unjust owners. So Rom. 8. 22. Hab. 2. 11.
And I will recouer my wooll, &c. The word here vsed signifieth, with strong hand to plucke away from one that which he vniustly possesseth. It is vsed, Gen. 31. 9. where Iacob saith, 1that God had taken away Labans substance, and giuen them vnto him, because it was wrongfully possessed by Laban, seeing it belonged vnto Iacob, as a reward of his painfull seruice. So the Israelites are commanded to take away the Egyptians goods and to spoyle them, because they wrongfully withheld them in their hands from the Israelites, seeing they were due to thē for their great paines and tedious bondage,