A69234:886
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.
Concerning the First, we are first to note the context, and so come to show the meaning of the words themselves. In 1the former chapter, the Lord under certain types and Parables, comforted those Israelites which were to be afflicted, in a grievous and tedious captivity, by assuring them of his love, and that their miseries were but the chastisements of a loving father, for their good and conversion, and not the punishments of an enemy for their hurt and destruction. Now lest the secure Israelites of his own times, should take encouragement unto them, by the former doctrine of consolation, to be moved thereby to continue in their impenitency; he showeth that howsoever the Lord was purposed to be gracious unto his elect Israelites in after ages, yet he would in the mean time punish severely those heinous & enormous sins as reigned amongst them, unless they prevented his judgements by their unfeigned repentance.
Concerning the First, we are first to note the context, and so come to shew the meaning of the words themselues. In 1the former chapter, the Lord vnder certaine types and Parables, comforted those Israelits which were to be afflicted, in a grieuous and tedious captiuitie, by assuring them of his loue, and that their miseries were but the chastisements of a louing father, for their good and conuersion, and not the punishments of an enemie for their hurt and destruction. Now lest the secure Israelits of his owne times, should take encouragement vnto them, by the former doctrine of consolation, to be moued thereby to continue in their impaenitencie; hee sheweth that howsoeuer the Lord was purposed to be gracious vnto his elect Israelits in after ages, yet he would in the meane time punish seuerely those haynous & enormious sinnes as raigned amongst them, vnlesse they preuented his judgements by their vnfained repentance.
- 1The context.