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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.
Out of which we may further gather, that so long as he sendeth his Prophets, and vouchsafeth his word unto a people, he hath not utterly rejected them, nor shut up the door of his mercy against them. For to this end he calleth them by his promises and threatenings, because he would not the death of a sinner, but that he should repent and live. And 1therefore when the Israelites took occasion upon the threatenings of Gods judgements denounced against them, desperately to go on in their sins, because they thought it now too late to repent, because the judgements of God, who is immutable, were already threatened; and therefore should certainly be inflicted notwithstanding their repentance: the Lord sendeth his Prophet unto them to tell them, that his threatenings were not absolute but conditional, and that when he threatened, he aimed not at their destruction, but at their conversion and salvation. And therefore exhorteth them to repentance, that so they might escape his punishments.
Out of which we may further gather, that so long as hee sendeth his Prophets, and vouchsafeth his word vnto a people, he hath not vtterly reiected them, nor shut vp the dore of his mercy against them. For to this end he calleth them by his promises and threatnings, because he would not the death of a sinner, but that hee should repent and liue. And 1therefore when the Israelites tooke occasion vpon the threatnings of Gods iudgements denounced against them, desperately to goe on in their sinnes, because they thought it now too late to repent, because the iudgements of God, who is immutable, were alreadie threatned; and therefore should certainely bee inflicted notwithstanding their repentance: the Lord sendeth his Prophet vnto them to tell them, that his threatnings were not absolute but conditionall, and that when he threatned, he aimed not at their destruction, but at their conuersion and saluation. And therfore exhorteth them to repentance, that so they might escape his punishments.