Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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THE ARGVMENT.
After that the ten tribes had fallen away fr&obar; God by the wicked & subtile co&ubar;sel of Ieroboam the sonne
of Nebat, & in stead of his true seruice c&obar;manded by his word worshipped him according to their owne
fantasies & traditions of m&ebar;, giuing th&ebar;selues to most vile idolatry & superstiti&obar;, the Lord fr&obar; time to time
sent them Prophets to cal them to repentance: but they grew euer worse & worse, and stil abused Gods benefits.
Therefore now when their prosperity was at the highest vnder Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash, God sent
Hosea and Amos to the Israelites (as he did at the same time Isaiah & Micah to them of Iudah) to condemne
them of their ingratitude: and whereas they thought themselues to be greatly in the fauour of God,
& to be his people, the Prophet calleth them bastards & children borne in adultery: and therefore sheweth
them that God would take away their kingdom, & giue them to the Assyri&abar;s to be led away captiues. Thus
Hosea faithfully executed his office for the space of seuentie yeres, though they remained still in their vices
& wickednes, & derided the Prophets, & contemned Gods iudgements. And because they should neither
be discouraged with threatnings onely, nor yet flatter them selues by the sweetnes of Gods promises, he setteth
before them the two principal parts of the Law, which are the promes of saluation, and the doctrine of
life: for the first part he directeth the faithful to Messiah, by whom only they should haue true deliuerance:
and for the second, he vseth threatnings & menaces to bring them from their wicked maners & vices, &
this is the chiefe scope of all the Prophets, either by Gods promises to allure them to be godly, els by threatnings
of his iudgements to feare them from vice: and albeit that the whole Law conteine these two points,
yet the Prophets moreouer note peculiarly both the time of Gods iudgements and the maner.
Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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