A69234:874
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.
Fifthly, we may observe, that when the people of Israel, 1are affrighted and terrified with the sight and sense of their sins, and those miseries which do accompany them, they do then, and not before, fly unto the Lord for grace and mercy: in whose example we have a notable president of our own disposition and practise; whilst we continue in our carnal security and hardness of heart, we never desire mercy and forgiveness; whilst we think our selves whole and sound, we never seek to our heavenly Physician, to be cured of our spiritual Leprosy and sickness of sin; whilst we think our selves rich, and have no sense of our poverty and nakedness, we never labour after the riches of Gods mercy and Christs merits, nor to be clothed with the glorious garment of his innocency and obedience; whilst we have no sense of our own unrighteousness, we will never hunger after Christs righteousness; whilst we think our selves already highly in gods favour, we never seek to Christ our Mediator, to reconcile us unto his father: but when our hearts are broken & contrite, & our consciences wounded, then do we earnestly desire the oil of Gods mercy, and the precious balm of Christs blood, that thereby we may be cured; when we see our own poverty, we labour after the riches of his merits, and in a word, when we are terrified ⟨p. 45⟩with the sight and sense of sin, and labour under it as a heavy burden, then do we fly unto the Lord for comfort, and sue unto Jesus Christ, that according to his gracious promise, he will ease and release us. Of the former we have 2examples in the young Justiciary. Mat. 19. 16. 20. The Pharisee. Luke. 18. 11. 14. And in the Pharisaical Papists. Of the latter in Job, Chap. 41. 6. In David, Psal. 51. In the prodigal son. Luke. 15. In the poor Publican. Luke. 18. And in the Jews.