A69234:913
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.
so that if we ⟨p. 63⟩be destitute of virtue, we are replenished with vice: If our houses be clean swept and empty of Gods graces, they become forthwith fit habitations for unclean spirits: if we be 1not endued with knowledge, we are blinded with ignorance: if we be destitute of faith, we are full fraught with infidelity: if we cease to do good, immediately we begin to do evil. And therefore our sins of omission, being always accompanied with sins of commission, are sufficient matter of indictment, for our just condemnation whensoever the Lord shall summon us to appear before him.
so that if we ⟨p. 63⟩be destitute of vertue, we are replenished with vice: If our houses be cleane swept and empty of Gods graces, they become forthwith fit habitations for vncleane spirits: if we be 1not indued with knowledge, we are blinded with ignorance: if we be destitute of faith, we are full fraught with infidelitie: if we cease to doe good, immediately we beginne to doe euill. And therefore our sinnes of omission, being alwayes accompanied with sinnes of commission, are sufficient matter of inditement, for our iust condemnation whensoeuer the Lord shall summon vs to appeare before him.
The use hereof is, that we do not with simple idiots 1bless our selves, because we are harmless and do no man wrong, and because we abstain from such gross impieties, as we see others commit; for the Lord requireth that we not only refrain from evil, but also that we do good: so that it is not sufficient that we do not scorn Gods worship, if we do not also religiously serve him; nor to abstain from blaspheming Gods name, if we do not also glorify it; nor to forbear doing wrong to our neighbour, unless also we be ready to perform the duties of justice, charity and christianity towards them.