A69234:712
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.
Fourthly, because when the husband is of an austere, rigorous, and implacable nature, so as he will not bear with his 1wives infirmities, but punisheth every fault in all bitterness and extremity, it is a notable means to work in her alienation of mind, and to move her to affect others more then ⟨p. 299⟩him: and contrariwise, compassion and readiness to pardon faults, and pass by infirmities, is a singular means to nourish love and fidelity; therefore the Lord promiseth in the next place, that he will marry the Church in mercy and compassion; so that though through frailty she fall, and by her sins offend him, yet this shall be no sufficient cause to move her desperately to forsake and flee from him, seeing he is so full of mercy and compassion, that she can be no more ready to repent, then he to forgive, nor to ask pardon, then he to grant it. And that not only for light and venial sins, nor for offences seldom committed, but for all her sins most grievous and innumerable: and this is implied in that he here useth the plural number, saying, that he will marry her in mercies, to note the multitude of his mercies, whereby he is ready to forgive a multitude of sins. The like place unto this we have, Jer. 31. 34. For I will forgive their iniquity, 2and remember their sins no more. So Isaiah 54. 10. The mountains shall remove, and the hills shall fall down, but my mercy shall not depart from thee, &c.
Fourthly, because when the husband is of an austere, rigorous, and impacable nature, so as he will not beare with his 1wiues infirmities, but punisheth euery fault in all bitternesse and extremitie, it is a notable meanes to worke in her alienation of minde, and to moue her to affect others more then ⟨p. 299⟩him: and contrariwise, compassion and readines to pardon faults, and passe by infirmities, is a singular meanes to nourish loue and fidelitie; therefore the Lord promiseth in the next place, that he wil marrie the Church in mercy and compassion; so that though through frailtie she fall, and by her sinnes offend him, yet this shall bee no sufficient cause to moue her desperately to forsake and flee from him, seeing he is so full of mercie and compassion, that she can be no more readie to repent, then he to forgiue, nor to aske pardon, then he to grant it. And that not only for light and veniall sinnes, nor for offences seldome committed, but for all her sinnes most grieuous and innumerable: and this is implied in that he here vseth the plurall number, saying, that he will marrie her in mercies, to note the multitude of his mercies, whereby he is readie to forgiue a multitude of sinnes. The like place vnto this we haue,