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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 hence it is that the Apostle saith, that whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 1Heb. 12. 6. So Apoc. 3. 19. For the Lord aimeth not at our hurt and punishment, but at our good and profit, ⟨p. 17⟩that we might be partakers of his holiness. Heb. 12. 10. And 2when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord, because we should not be condemned of the world, as it is, 1. Cor. 11. 32. 3The Lord bridleth us with afflictions, that we may not run headlong in the course of sin, and like a good schoolmaster he correcteth us, that he may teach us in his ways, and make us more diligently apply our lessons. And this David well knew by his own experience, and therefore he saith, Psal. 119. 67. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but 4now have I kept thy word. And verse 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn thy statutes. When our heavenly Physician dieteth us from the pleasures of sin, which we love better then out meat and drink, & giveth us the bitter pills and loathsome potions of afflictions, it is a sign that he intendeth the cure, and that there is some hope of our recovery; but when he letteth us have whatsoever we lust after, and letteth our appetite be the only rule of our diet, it is a shrewd token that he hath given us over as being a desperate cure: when our father suffereth us to go on in all wicked and licentious courses, it is a sign he neglecteth us, and meaneth to disinherit us: when our Lord and master lets us neglect all duties without controlment, and suffers us to go on in our stubbornness and disobedience, without any reproof or correction, he makes it manifest that his purpose is to turn us out of his service; and when he lets us feed at will in the pleasant pastures of sin, it is more then probable that he hath destinated us to the slaughter.