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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 use hereof is, First that if sin have made an entrance 1into us, we labour to cast it out, before it have taken full possession, and that we crush in pieces this Babylonish brood, before they grow too strong for us.
The vse hereof is, First that if sinne haue made an entrance 1into vs, wee labour to cast it out, before it haue taken full possession, and that wee crush in peeces this Babilonish broode, before they grow too strong for vs.
- 1The uses.The vses.
Secondly it serveth for the confutation of the foolish conceit 1and practise of worldly men, who nourish their corruptions, and defer their repentance from year to year, thinking that howsoever it is now some-what difficult to master their sins, yet hereafter they may do it at pleasure: but let such know, that the longer their sins grow upon them, the more hardly will they be subdued, & if now they seem too strong for them, let them assure themselves, that in ⟨p. 94⟩further process of time they will grow altogether unresistable; neither will any fence restrain them from running and rushing into the pleasant pastures of sin and wickedness.
Secondly it serueth for the confutation of the foolish conceit 1and practise of worldly men, who nourish their corruptions, and deferre their repentance from yeare to yeare, thinking that howsoeuer it is now some-what difficult to maister their sinnes, yet hereafter they may do it at pleasure: but let such know, that the longer their sinnes grow vpon them, the more hardly will they be subdued, & if now they seeme too strong for them, let them assure themselues, that in