A69234:626
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.
Whereas then the Lord promiseth to give unto his Church the valley of Achor, the meaning is, that as the people of Israel, after they had wandered in the wilderness 40. years, destitute of corn, wine, oil, and all other benefits, saving those which the Lord miraculously bestowed; and in this respect, howsoever they were preserved by God, yet had they still the image of death before them, and after they had been tried, and humbled by many afflictions, were in Gods appointed time brought into the confines of the land of Canaan, the country of Jericho, and the valley of Achor, where they enjoyed all these blessings with great comfort and contentation; so that in respect of the great and sudden alteration they seemed newly transported from death to life: So the Church in the time of the Gospel, after she is reconciled unto God, and hath passed through a wilderness of affliction, for her trial and humiliation, is not only sustained in the middest of all her troubles, with the inward comfort of Gods Spirit, but also is further assured of Gods love, by the outward testimony of his manifold benefits, wherewith she is replenished with such joy and consolation, that she seemeth unto her self restored from the death of sorrow and misery, to the life of comfort and happiness.
Wheras then the Lord promiseth to giue vnto his Church the valley of Achor, the meaning is, that as the people of Israel, after they had wandered in the wildernesse 40. years, destitute of corne, wine, oyle, and all other benefits, sauing those which the Lord miraculously bestowed; and in this respect, howsoeuer they were preserued by God, yet had they stil the image of death before them, and after they had been tried, and humbled by many afflictions, were in Gods appointed time brought into the confines of the land of Canaan, the countrie of Iericho, and the valley of Achor, where they enioyed all these blessings with great comfort and contentation; so that in respect of the great and sudden alteration they seemed newly transported from death to life: So the Church in the time of the Gospell, after she is reconciled vnto God, and hath passed thorow a wildernesse of affliction, for her triall and humiliation, is not only sustained in the middest of all her troubles, with the inward comfort of Gods Spirit, but also is further assured of Gods loue, by the outward testimonie of his manifold benefits, wherewith she is replenished with such ioy and consolation, that shee seemeth vnto her selfe restored from the death of sorrow and miserie, to the life of comfort and happines.