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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 second effect of their conversion is expressed in these 1words: And shall fear the Lord and his goodness, or as the Hebrew hath it, shall fear unto the Lord. Whereby we are not to understand that they should perform that moral duty of fearing God, as our English translation seemeth to import: but that they should fearfully hasten unto the Lord and his goodness, that is, being affrighted with the sight and sense ⟨p. 40⟩of their sins, the curse of the law, the anger of God, death, and damnation due unto them, they shall with all possible speed fly unto the Lord, & to his goodness, and by a lively faith lay hold upon gods mercy offered unto them in Christ, and rest wholly thereupon for their salvation, So that this seemeth to be a Metaphor taken from Birds, which being suddenly feared do fearfully fly unto their retiring places of greatest safety. And thus this word is taken, Chap. 11. 11. 2They shall fear as a sparrow out of Egypt, that is, being affrighted they shall fly with great hast. And in this sense the Latin word trepidare is used, as Livij annalium 23. Moxque in sua quisque ministeria discursu trepidat ad prima signa. Virgil. Aeneid. 9. Ne trepidate meas Teucri defendere naves, (id est, ne festinate.) Nevè armate manus, &c.
The second effect of their conuersion is expressed in these 1words: And shall feare the Lord and his goodnes, or as the Hebrew hath it, shall feare vnto the Lord. Wherby we are not to vnderstand that they should performe that morral dutie of fearing God, as our English translation seemeth to import: but that they should fearefully hasten vnto the Lord and his goodnesse, that is, being affrighted with the sight and sence ⟨p. 40⟩of their sinnes, the curse of the law, the anger of God, death, and damnation due vnto them, they shall with all possible speede flye vnto the Lord, & to his goodnes, and by a liuely faith lay hold vpon gods mercie offred vnto them in Christ, and rest vvholy therevpon for their saluation, So that this seemeth to be a Metaphor taken from Birds, which being sodainely feared doe fearefully flye vnto their retiring places of greatest safety. And thus this word is taken, Chap. 11. 11.