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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 like place to this we have. Gen. 6. 3. Therefore the 1Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, because he is but flesh, and his days shall be an hundred and twenty years: The meaning is, that because the world was rooted in a desperate wickedness, and would not be reclaimed by his spirit preaching unto them by righteous Noah, therefore he would no longer contend with them in verbal controversies, seeing they were wholly carnal and corrupt: but would bring upon them real punishments, and that within the space of an hundred and twenty years, unless in the mean time, they prevented his Judgements by turning from their sins by true repentance. So here the Prophet telleth them, that because Gods word was of no force with them for their amendment, the Lord would no longer thus strive with them, and seeing his Prophets and their reprehensions were derided, neglected, and contemned, therefore he would take his own cause into his own hand, and contend no longer verbally, but really with them, proceeding from words to ⟨p. 54⟩blows, from threatenings to punishments.
The like place to this we haue. Gen. 6. 3. Therefore the 1Lord said, my spirit shall not alwayes striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shall be an hundred and twenty yeers: The meaning is, that because the world was rooted in a desperate wickednesse, and would not be reclaimed by his spirit preaching vnto them by righteous Noah, therefore hee would no longer contend with them in verbal controuersies, seeing they were wholy carnall and corrupt: but would bring vpon them reall punishments, and that within the space of an hundred and twenty yeeres, vnlesse in the meane time, they preuented his Iudgements by turning from their sinnes by true repentance. So here the Prophet telleth them, that because Gods word was of no force with them for their amendment, the Lord would no longer thus striue with them, and seeing his Prophets and their reprehensions were derided, neglected, and contemned, therefore hee would take his owne cause into his owne hand, and contend no longer verbally, but really with them, proceeding from words to