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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.
And this is the context: now let us come to the meaning 1of the words. Hear the word of the Lord ye children of Israel. Wherein the Prophet summoneth the people to appear before the Lord, to answer unto such things, as should be 2objected and laid to their charge. For as, judges, before they suffer any to be accused or condemned, do cause their clerk or crier to summon and call forth the party, to see what he can answer for himself; so doth the Lord take the same judicial course with sinners, for the approving of his righteous judgements; that is, he citeth them before he accuseth them, and accuseth them before he condemneth them. The which summons he pronounceth sometimes immediately by himself, as when he cited Adam to appear before him 3in Paradise, Gen. 3. 9. And thus he summoneth men when as he speaketh unto their harts & consciences by his judgements and punishments: And sometimes by his Ministers, and that either men or Angels: by men as by his Prophets & ambassadors, an example whereof we have in this place: the like whereof we have Esa. 1. 18. Jer. 2. 4. 5. Mich. 1. 2. 4and 6. 1. 2. 3. &c. By Angels either in this life, when he maketh them his instruments and ministers of his afflictions, judgements and punishments, or at the end of the world, when as the arch-Angel with the sound of his trumpet, shall summon all men to appear before the tribunal seat of Gods judgement; of which we may read Math. 24. 31. 5