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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.
The denunciation of their punishment is expressed in these words: I will visit. Where the Lord showeth, that he would no longer defer his punishments, nor seem to wink at their sins: but now he would begin to inflict his judgements on them, which their wickedness deserved; yet not rashly, but advisedly, and upon mature deliberation, as he noteth by the word visit, of which I have more largely spoken, when I handled the fourth verse of the first chapter.
The denunciation of their punishment is expressed in these words: I will visite. Where the Lord sheweth, that he would no longer defere his punishments, nor seeme to wincke at their sins: but now he would begin to inflict his iudgements on them, which their wickednes deserued; yet not rashly, but aduisedly, and vpon mature deliberation, as hee noteth by the word visite, of which I haue more largely spoken, when I handled the fourth verse of the first chapter.
Their sin is first generally signified in these words, The days of Baalim. By which we are to understand the days of their idolatry, or all the time wherein they had worshipped idols, since the Lord had made his covenant with them, and had married them unto himself, which was soon after their coming out of Egypt. So that here he threateneth to visit upon them, not only the idolatry which in their own time was committed, but the idolatry of their fore-fathers, of ⟨p. 235⟩which we may read, Exod. 32. 1. & vers. 34. Numb. 25. 1. 3. 1Jud. 10. 6. &c. because they did not forsake their sins, but approved, liked, and lived in them. According to that in the second Commandment, For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children &c.