A69234:899
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.
Whereas therefore he chargeth them that there was no truth in the land, the meaning is, that there was no simplicity or integrity in their minds and harts, no verity in their speeches, nor justice in their actions: and because virtues and vices are contraries without mean, so that the denying of the one in a subject capable of it, is the affirming of the other; therefore hereby he implieth when he saith there was no simplicity in the land; that it was full of hypocrisy and dissimulation; and when he affirmeth that there was no verity, he implieth that there was lying; and when he accuseth them to be without truth or justice in their actions, he intimateth also that they were full of all manner of fraud and deceit.
Whereas therefore he chargeth them that there was no truth in the land, the meaning is, that there was no simplicitie or integritie in their minds and harts, no verity in their speaches, nor justice in their actions: and because vertues and vices are contraries without meane, so that the denying of the one in a subiect capable of it, is the affirming of the other; therefore hereby hee implyeth when he saith there was no simplicitie in the land; that it was full of hipocrisie and dissimulation; and when he affirmeth that there was no veritie, he implyeth that there was lying; and when he accuseth them to be without truth or justice in their actions, he intimateth also that they were full of all manner of fraud and deceit.
The second sin whereof he accuseth them is, that they 1were without mercy; the word signifieth either benignity or beneficence, and in the former signification it is referred to the mind and hart, and so is called mercy and compassion; and in the latter to the words and works, and then it is called beneficence, and comprehendeth in it all works of charity and christianity: as when in our words we are ready to help and benefit our brethren by exhortation, counsel, consolation, admonition and reprehension: and in our works, by defending them with all our power, and relieving them with ⟨p. 57⟩