A69234:901
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 these were the sins which respected their neighbours, and the breach of the second table: their sins which immediately respected God are all comprehended in this, that there was no knowledge of God in the land: under 1which particular he compriseth the neglect of all the duties enjoined in the first table, and of all religion & piety; for as from the true saving knowledge of God, as from the root of all graces, there springeth Faith, affiance, hope, love, the fear of God, obedience, and all true worship of God: so contrariwise ignorance is the root of all impiety, infidelity, diffidence, presumption, despair, hatred of God, contempt, disobedience, superstition & idolatry. And therefore whereas he chargeth them that they were without the knowledge of God, he necessarily implieth that they were utterly destitute of all grace, piety and all true religion, and guilty of the breach of all the commandments of the first table: for where the root is dead there the branches must needs perish.
And these were the sinnes which respected their neighbours, and the breach of the second table: their sinnes which immediately respected God are all comprehended in this, that there was no knowledge of God in the land: vnder 1which particular he compriseth the neglect of all the duties injoyned in the first table, and of all religion & piety; for as from the true sauing knowledge of God, as from the root of all graces, there springeth Faith, affiance, hope, loue, the feare of God, obedience, and all true worship of God: so contrariwise ignorance is the roote of all impietie, infidelity, diffidence, presumption, despaire, hatred of God, contempt, disobedience, superstition & idolatrie. And therefore whereas he chargeth them that they were without the knowledge of God, he necessarily implyeth that they were vtterly destitute of all grace, piety and all true religion, and guilty of the breach of all the commandements of the first table: for where the roote is dead there the braunches must needes perish.
- 1The third sin, no knowledge of God.