A69234:840
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.
Thirdly, he implieth the sorrow and mourning of the people, by this phrase of sitting; which usually in the Scriptures is ascribed to those, who are in grief and heaviness: for not knowing which way to ease themselves, nor having any appetite, when they are oppressed with sorrow, to go about any thing, they sit down & bewail their misery. So it is said of Jobs friends, that they sate down to mourn with him, when they could not help him. Job. 2. 13. Of Nehemiah, that 1he sate down and wept, and mourned for certain days. Nehe. 21. 4. Of Jerusalem, that she sate solitary like a widow, mourning and lamenting her afflictions. Lamen. 1. 1. 2. And Babylon 3sayeth of her self, that she would not sit as a Widow. 4Isaiah. 47. 8.
Thirdly, he implyeth the sorrow and mourning of the people, by this phrase of sitting; which vsually in the Scriptures is ascribed to those, who are in griefe and heauinesse: for not knowing which way to ease themselues, nor hauing any appetite, when they are oppressed with sorrow, to go about any thing, they sit down & bewaile their miserie. So it is said of Iobs friends, that they sate downe to mourne with him, when they could not help him. Iob. 2. 13. Of Nehemiah, that 1he sate downe and wept, and mourned for certaine dayes. Nehe. 21. 4. Of Ierusalem, that she sate solitarie like a widdow, mourning and lamenting her afflictions. Lamen. 1. 1. 2. And Babilon 3sayeth of her selfe, that shee would not sit as a Widdow.