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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.
All which creatures before the fall were by Gods appointment under mans lordship and dominion, yielding unto him voluntary and free obedience, but after by his sin ⟨p. 277⟩and rebellion, man had made God his enemy, he lost his sovereignty, the creatures rebelling against him, who was a rebel to their great Lord and Creator, and pulling their necks out of the yoke of their subjection; and whereas before they peaceably obeyed him, now they were willing to be the Lords ready instruments to inflict deserved punishments, and bring man to destruction; the water to drown him, as it did the whole world; the fire to burn him, as it did Sodom; the air to poison and infect him, as in the time of the pestilence; the earth to swallow him, as it did Dathan and his followers; the bears to devour him, as 1they did the 42. children at the prayer of Elisha; the lions to destroy him, as they did the Samaritans; Serpents to sting him, as they did the Israelites; yea even the basest creatures have both will & power enough when God giveth sign of battle, as frogs, caterpillars, lice, as we may see in the plagues of Egypt, and in the example of Herod devoured by lice.2
All which creatures before the fall were by Gods appointment vnder mans lordship and dominion, yeelding vnto him voluntarie and free obedience, but after by his sinne ⟨p. 277⟩and rebellion, man had made God his enemie, he lost his soueraigntie, the creatures rebelling against him, who was a rebell to their great Lord and Creator, and pulling their necks out of the yoke of their subiection; and whereas before they peaceably obeyed him, now they were willing to bee the Lords readie instruments to inflict deserued punishments, and bring man to destruction; the water to drowne him, as it did the whole world; the fire to burne him, as it did Sodome; the aire to poyson and infect him, as in the time of the pestilence; the earth to swallow him, as it did Dathan and his followers; the beares to deuoure him, as 1they did the 42. children at the prayer of Elisha; the lions to destroy him, as they did the Samaritanes; Serpents to sting him, as they did the Israelites; yea euen the basest creatures haue both will & power enough when God giueth signe of battel, as frogs, caterpillers, lice, as we may see in the plagues of Egypt, and in the example of Herod deuoured by lice.