Hosea 6

^{1 !} Affliction causeth a man to turne to God.

^{1 a} He sheweth the people howe they oght to turne to the Lord, that the might call backe his plagues.

^{2 b} Thogh he correct vs from time to time, yet his helpe wil not be farre of, if we returne to him.

^{4 c} You seme to haue a certeine holines, & repentance, but it is vpon the sudden, and as a morning cloude.

^{5 d} I haue stil laboured by my Prophets, & as it were framed you to bring you to amendement, but all was in vaine: for my worde was not meat to fede them but a sworde to slay them.

^{5 e} My doctrine which I taught thee, was moste euident.

^{6 f} He sheweth to what scope his doctrine tended that they shulde joyne the obedience of God, & the loue of their neighbour with outwarde sacrifice.

^{7 g} That is, like light & weake perrsones.

^{8 h} Which was the place where the Priests dwelt, and which shulde haue bene best instructed in my worde.

^{9 !} The wickednes of the Priests.

^{11 i} That is, doeth imitate thine idolatrie, and hathe taken graffes of thy trees.