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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.
The like want also we have of Christian beneficence, 1and of the works of mercy: for the coldness of Charity in the hart doth cause it also to freeze in the tongue & hand, for who almost in our time, is ready to instruct the ignorant, to exhort the sluggish, to admonish those who fall through weakness, to reprehend those who sin through negligence or obstinacy, to counsel the simple or to comfort the distressed? And contrariwise how many are there amongst us, who are content to be Satan's ready instruments to discourage others in any good course, both by their word and example also? How many are ready to seduce the ignorant, to discourage the forward by reproaching their profession, to corrupt the weak, by their unsavoury profane and filthy communication, to applaud men in wicked courses, and by insulting over those who are in misery, to add affliction unto affliction.
The like want also we haue of Christian beneficence, 1and of the works of mercy: for the coldnesse of Charitie in the hart doth cause it also to freese in the tongue & hand, for who almost in our time, is ready to instruct the ignorant, to exhort the sluggish, to admonish those who fall through weaknesse, to reprehend those who sin through negligence or obstinacy, to counsaile the simple or to comfort the distressed? And contrariwise how many are there amongst vs, who are content to be Sathans ready instruments to discourage others in any good course, both by their word and example also? How many are ready to seduce the ignorant, to discourage the forward by reproaching their profession, to corrupt the weake, by their vnsauorie prophane and filthy communication, to applaud men in wicked courses, and by insulting ouer those who are in misery, to adde affliction vnto affliction.
- 1The great want of Christian beneficence.
And as this beneficence is wanting in communication, so