A69234:926
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.
But as truth is banished from the hart and reins, so also 1from the tongue and speech; for as men are double hearted, so also they are double tongued; and well may we in our times complain with David. Psal. 12. 1. 2. The faithful are 2failed from among the children of men. They speak deceitfully every one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips and speak with a double heart. The wise man persuadeth us, that we be ready to buy the truth, and not to sell it at any rate. Prou. 23. 23 3But now truth is so basely esteemed, that it is not thought worth the purchasing: and contrariwise all sorts of men are willing to sell it at the lowest prises, as though it were nothing worth. Some part with it for nothing, speaking untruly upon no cause, but merely their own vanity: some sell it for the least penny of profit, or the lightest dram of vain pleasure. Have they committed any fault? presently truth is sold, to buy a cover of a false excuse, wherewith they may hide it from those, whom they are more loath to displease then God himself. Do they hunt after the favour of great parsonages? then truth must needs be sold through base ⟨p. 70⟩flattery to purchase it. Would they spitefully revenge them selves upon their neighbour, and yet he shall never know who hurt him? they part with truth through backbiting and slandering, for which if at any time they are called in question, they make untruth their best salve to cure that wound which they have made with their lying tongues. In a word the least cause is thought sufficient, to make men part with truth through false speaking, and though it ought •o be unto us most precious, yet almost every one is willing to forgo it at any rate.
But as truth is banished from the hart and reines, so also 1