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…

1. That the Saints of God, and the Church, they are Gods Jezreel. That is, they are the seed of God.

2. That there is for this seed of God a great day.

1. They are the seed of God. The seed of the blessed, and there is a blessing in them. They are the precious seed that God preserves in the world, & hath done ever since the beginning of the world. They are that seed that preserveth the glory of God in the world. Were it not for a few gracious, holy people in the world, where would the glory of God be? What would become of it? Those that are godly, however contemptible in the world, they are the precious seed that God reserves in the world for great and glorious ends. They are the seed to preserve the continuation of the Doctrine of the Gospel, and the blessed truths of God; as Isa. 6. 13. The holy seed shall be the substance thereof. Though they shall be under great afflictions, yet there shall be a holy seed that shall be the substance thereof, and there shall be his blessing.¹ Psal. 72. 17. His name shall endure from generation to generation: the words are read by Montanus, His name shall be childed, that is, so continued as families are continued, one generation after another, one begetteth another: and so shall the name of Christ continue in the world, and so it hath done. And though seed be but a handful in comparison of the harvest, so the Saints of God then were, and yet are but as a handful in comparison of the glorious harvest that shall be, yet they are very precious before God, and God will make the world hereafter know that they are the precious ones of God,