An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first…An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first…

4. Sons, Because they have not such a spirit of servility upon them as they had in the time of the Law. Christ is come to redeem us that we might serve the Lord in holiness and righteousness before him without fear all the days of our life, ¹to take away the spirit of fear: Hence the Apostle saith, We have not received the spirit of fear but of love, and of a sound mind. ²And Heb. 2. 15. Christ is come to redeem those who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage. The spirit of a son is not be spirit of fear, We have not received the spirit of bondage to fear again, but the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father. It is unbeseeming ⟨p. 89⟩the children of God, especially in the time of the Gospel, to be of such servile spirits as to fear every little danger, to be distracted with fear, and presently to be amazed. Hath not God revealed himself to us as a Father to his children that we must not fear? He would not have us fear himself,³ not with a servile sear as men do, and therefore surely not to fear men be they what they will be. We are sons.

4. Sonnes, Because they have not such a spirit of servility upon them as they had in the time of the Law. Christ is come to redeem us that we might serve the Lord in holinesse and righteousnesse before him without feare all the dayes of our life, ¹to take away the spirit of feare: Hence the Apostle saith, We have not received the spirit of feare but of love, and of a sound minde. ²And Heb. 2. 15. Christ is come to redeem those who through feare of death were all their life time subject to bondage. The spirit of a sonne is not be spirit of feare, We have not received the spirit of bondage to feare again, but the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father. It is unbeseeming