A69234:627
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.
But yet whilst she remaineth in the valley of Achor, and but in the borders of the heavenly Canaan; howsoever she hath great cause of joy and contentment, in regard of the manifold benefits which God bestoweth upon her, yet is her joy often intermixed with sorrow and trouble, through that ⟨p. 258⟩cursed Achan the flesh, which eagerly coveting the pleasures of sin, and the golden baits of wickedness, is thereby allured to sin, and to provoke Gods wrath, by seizing upon unlawful pleasures and profits accursed by God: by which inward rebel she is betrayed unto her outward enemies, those cursed Canaanites, the world and the devil, so that for a time they prevail against her. But yet in the end she hath an happy issue out of all her afflictions: for as when Achan was stoned, Israel having hereby appeased Gods wrath, obtained a famous victory against the men of Ai, so when the flesh is mortified which betrayed us, we obtain a glorious victory over the world and the devil, and so enter into a full possession of the heavenly Canaan.
But yet whilest she remaineth in the valley of Achor, and but in the borders of the heauenly Canaan; howsoeuer shee hath great cause of ioy and contentment, in regard of the manifold benefits which God bestoweth vpon her, yet is her ioy often intermixed with sorrow and trouble, through that ⟨p. 258⟩cursed Achan the flesh, which eagerly coueting the pleasures of sinne, and the golden baites of wickednes, is thereby allured to sinne, and to prouoke Gods wrath, by seasing vpon vnlawfull pleasures and profits accursed by God: by which inward rebell shee is betrayed vnto her outward enemies, those cursed Cananites, the world and the diuell, so that for a time they preuaile against her. But yet in the end she hath an happie issue out of all her afflictions: for as when Achan was stoned, Israel hauing hereby appeased Gods wrath, obtained a famous victory against the men of Ai, so when the flesh is mortified which betrayed vs, we obtaine a glorious victorie ouer the world and the diuell, and so enter into a full possession of the heauenly Canaan.