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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.
The use which we are to make hereof is, that when we are in affliction, we do neither expect present deliverance, nor yet imagine that God will forsake us for ever. For if our hopes be frustrate we shall grow impatient, and if we have no hope at all we shall grow desperate.
The vse which we are to make hereof is, that vvhen vvee are in affliction, vve doe neither expect present deliuerance, nor yet imagine that God will forsake vs for euer. For if our hopes be frustrate vve shall grow impatient, and if vve haue no hope at all we shall grow desperate.
Fourthly, we may observe, that he saith the Israelites should 1continue in their afflicted estate many days, whereas in truth they continued divers ages, even six hundred & fourscore years. So he saith that the Church of the Smirnians should have tribulation for ten days. Apoc. 2. 10. And that the Church should be fed in the wilderness of affliction a thousand two hundred and threescore days. Chap. 11. 6. By which computation he teacheth us how we are to account of the time of affliction; namely, howsoever to the flesh it seem long and tedious, yet it is to be judged short & momentany, in comparison of that eternal glory which attendeth for us, after we have finished the short skirmish of afflictions. When as therefore our troubles and crosses, seem so tedious, as though they would never end; let us comfort our selves with this consideration, that they are in truth but light, short and momentany, in respect of that superexcellent and eternal weight of glory, which is reserved for us. 2 Cor. 4. 17.2
Fourthly, vve may obserue, that he saith the Israelits should 1