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…

Indeed the heathen gods […] to divide their honours, and to. ⟨p. 127⟩have but some, and other to have some other: and hence the Senate of Rome rejected Christ from taking in him to be a God, after they consulted about it, for said they, if Christ come to be acknowledged a God he will not share with the rest, he will have all himself, and so upon this reason they refused him, Thus do many reject Christ for a head, and for a God, because Christ will not share with others; he must be but one. And a special help is here to our faith in looking up to Christ for help and protection when all means fail (I beseech you observe it) What, doth Christ require of us that we should make him head alone and join nothing with him as head? Then we may well expect from him in all our wants, a protection, and that he alone should help us; or otherwise, the condition of a Christian were the worst condition in the world, were worse then the condition of a heathen: For the gods of a heathen would be content to have but part of the honour of the heart and life because they could help but in part. If a heathen god should require the whole soul to be lifted up above all, and he alone to be honoured and worshipped as a God, and yet when it comes to a matter of help and protection, he could do nothing without some other joined with him, a heathen might well reason the ease with him as doing him wrong, certainly Christ will never wrong his people, so as to challenge from them, that they should lift up him alone, and join no other with him, and yet when it comes to their help and succour that there should be need to call in others besides himself to their help. Therefore as Christ doth challenge it from us to make him our head alone, so we may challenge it from Christ to help us alone when there is no other help for us.

Indeed the heathen gods 〈…〉 to divide their honours, and to. ⟨p. 127⟩have but some, and other to have some other: and hence the Senate of Rome rejected Christ from taking in him to be a God, after they consulted about it, for said they, if Christ come to be acknowledged a God he will not share with the rest, he will have all himself, and so upon this reason they refused him, Thus do many reject Christ for a head, and for a God, because Christ will not share with others; he must be but one. And a speciall help is here to our faith in looking up to Christ for help and protection when all meanes faile (I beseech you observe it) What, doth Christ require of us that wee should make him head alone and joyne nothing with him as head? Then we may well expect from him in all our wants, a protection, and that he alone should help us; or otherwise, the condition of a Christian were the worst condition in the world, were worse then the condition of a heathen: For the gods of a heathen would be content to have but part of the honour of the heart and life because they could help but in part. If a heathen god should require the whole soulto be lifted up above all, and he alone to be honoured and worshipped as a God, and yet when it comes to a matter of helpe and protection, he could doe nothing without some other joyned with him, a heathen might well reason the ease with him as doing him wrong, certainly Christ will never wrong his people, so as to challenge from them, that they should lift up him alone, and joyne no other with him, and yet when it comes to their help and succour that there should be need to call in others besides himselfe to their help. Therefore as Christ doth challenge it from us to make him our head alone, so we may challenge it from Christ to helpe us alone when there is no other helpe for us.