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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.
Secondly, we here observe, that as ignorance is the fountain 1of all sin, so also it is the cause of all punishment, for when a land is destitute of the knowledge of God, then doth the Lord proclaim, that he hath a controversy with that people, and that he will after a real manner plead against them, till he hath destroyed them with his Judgements. And indeed many are the evils which in the Scriptures are threatened against men for this sin of Ignorance: as for example, the Lord threateneth that he will laugh at their destruction, & stop his cares at their prayers, who hate knowledge. Prou. 1. 28. He punisheth it with Captivity, Isaiah. 5. 13. ⟨p. 66⟩2Therefore my people is gone into captivity, because they had no 3knowledge. With desolation Isaiah. 27. 10. The defenced city shall become desolate &c. 11. For it is a people of none understanding; 4therefore he that made them shall have no compassion of them. It bringeth destruction and moveth the Lord to forsake us. Hos 4. 6. It maketh men subject to the curse and wrath of God; and therefore the Prophet boldly prayeth 5that the Lord would pour out his wrath, upon them that do not know him. Jere. 10. 10. Psal. 79. 6. It maketh them strangers 6from the life of God. Ephe. 4. 18. and also from life everlasting; for as he that is ignorant of the way, cannot come to the journeys end, so they who are ignorant of the means of coming to eternal life can never attain unto it. In a word it maketh men subject to gods vengeance at the day of judgement; for the Apostle telleth us. That the Lord will come in flaming fire, to render vengeance to those that do not know him.