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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.
Secondly, he setteth down the punishment it self, to wit, that he would discover her lewdness, &c. The word here used signifieth, either foolishness, or filthiness: in the first sense it is taken, 1. Sam. 25. 25. Psal. 14. 1. Deut. 32. 6. in the latter, Gen. 34. 7. Deut. 22. 21. If we understand it in the former signification, 1the meaning is, that by stripping her of all his benefits, he would show, that she had done foolishly, in ascribing them to her lovers, seeing they were his gifts; and in forsaking him, a God most gracious and almighty, that she might follow after her lovers, who had neither will nor ability to relieve her wants. But the coherence with the former words is better, if we understand it in the latter signification, for in the former verse, the Lord threateneth, that he would strip her of his benefits, and namely, of her clothes, which he had given her to cover her nakedness: and here he showeth that he would not strip her in a corner, but even in the sight of her lovers, that they might also behold, and detest her abominable filthiness. And this interpretation I rather embrace, then the other, because it agreeth with the like places of Scripture, as Ezech. 16. 37. Jer. 4. 30.2
Secondly, hee setteth downe the punishment it selfe, to wit, that he would discouer her leaudnesse, &c. The word here vsed signifieth, either foolishnes, or filthines: in the first sense it is taken, 1. Sam. 25. 25. Psal. 14. 1.