A69234:844
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 this is the meaning of the words: from whence we 1may observe these instructions. First, whereas he saith that the people of Israel shall sit waiting in heaviness, without any outward signs of gods comfortable presence; hence we learn that even Gods dearest children oftentimes have the beams of Gods favour so clouded from them in their afflictions, that they seem unto themselves desolate, and utterly forsaken of God, as appeareth in this place. So Job complaineth, Chap. 213. 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemy. And David Psal. 13. 1. How long wilt thou forget me O Lord, for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? ⟨p. 33⟩3And 88. 14. Lord why doest thou reject my soul, and hidest 4thy face from me? 89. 46. So Isaiah complaineth in the name of the faithful, Chapter 45. 15. Verily thou O God hidest thy 5self. The Church likewise, Lamen. 5. 20. Wherefore doest 6thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? Yea this was the complaint of the son of God himself, when as he bore our iniquities, Math. 27. 46. Not that indeed the Lord 7doth ever forsake those whom he hath once chosen, but only for a time with-holdeth the outward signs and inward feeling of his comfortable presence, that he may move them more seriously to sorrow for sin, more earnestly to beg and pray for the return of his favour, and more preciously to esteem of it being restored unto them, when they perceive how barren of all comfort and joy their souls are, as soon as the Sun-shine of Gods favour is eclipsed from them.