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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.
Secondly, seeing the Lord in love correcteth us, that he may reclaim us from our sins, let us, when we suffer any affliction, labour to find out our sins, bewail them, and turn from them unto the Lord by true repentance; and then the same love which moved the Lord to correct us, will also move him when we are reformed, to ease us of our affliction, neither will he cause us any longer to drink these bitter potions, when he hath already recovered us of our health.
Secondly, seeing the Lord in loue correcteth vs, that hee may reclaime vs from our sinnes, let vs, when we suffer any affliction, labour to finde out our sinnes, bewayle them, and turne from them vnto the Lord by true repentance; and then the same loue which moued the Lord to correct vs, will also moue him when we are reformed, to ease vs of our affliction, neyther will he cause vs any longer to drink these bitter potions, when hee hath already recouered vs of our health.
Thirdly, we learn to judge charitably of those whom the Lord exerciseth with afflictions, and not to imagine that because any are extraordinarily afflicted, therefore they are more then ordinary sinners, as the Jews did. Luke. 13. 1. 2 1And the Barbarians. Act. 28. 4. For then we shall condemn 2the generation of Gods children. Psal. 73. 15. Yea even the Son 3of God himself, as it is. Esa. 53. 3. 4.4