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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 this is the first benefit. The second is expressed in these words; and I will speak friendly, or comfortably unto her. The original hath it thus; and I will speak unto her heart: by which is signified that he would speak unto her such pleasant and acceptable words, as should replenish her hart with true joy and comfort, though they were in the middest of the wilderness of affliction. And thus this phrase is used, Esa. 40. 11. 2. Gen. 34. 3. Jud. 19. 3. Ruth 2. 13. And so in the new Testament, whereas it is in the Greek, they comforted any, the Syriac hath it, they spoke with their hearts. So Joh. 11. 19. 1. Thess. 2. 11.
And this is the first benefit. The second is expressed in these words; and I will speake friendly, or comfortably vnto her. The originall hath it thus; and I will speake vnto her heart: by which is signified that he would speak vnto her such pleasant and acceptable words, as should replenish her hart with true ioy and comfort, though they were in the middest of the wildernesse of affliction. And thus this phrase is vsed, Esa. 40. 11. 2. Gen. 34. 3. Iud. 19. 3. Ruth 2. 13. And so in the new Testament, whereas it is in the Greeke, they comforted any, the Syriacke hath it, they spoke with their hearts. So Ioh. 11. 19.