A69234:1090
Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text…Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text…
Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text is expounded and cleared, and such profitable instructions observed, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holy Scripture, and are fit for these times. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods word.Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text is exponded and cleered, and such profitable instructions obserued, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holie Scripture, and are fit for these times. By Iohn Dovvname Bacheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston and T. East for William Welby, 1608
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The use is, that if we would escape these manifold and 1continual calamities, we submit our selves to be ruled by the sceptre of the word, and be as well contented to hear our selves admonished of our faults, and reproved for out sins, as to hear of comfort when we do well, and of the gracious promises of the Gospel, when we have turned from our sins by unfeigned repentance.
The vse is, that if we would escape these manifold and 1continuall calamities, we submit our selues to be ruled by the scepter of the word, and bee as well contented to heare our selues admonished of our faults, and reproued for out sinnes, as to heare of comfort when we doe well, and of the gracious promises of the Gospll, when we haue turned from our sinnes by vnfayned repentance.
- 1A particular Church may cease to be a true Church.A perticular Church may cease to be a true Church.
Lastly, we may observe, that howsoever the Catholic and invisible Church of Christ, cannot fail and cease to be ⟨p. 133⟩his Church, yet a particular and visible Church may; as we see in the example of the Church of Israel in this place. For when Idolatry, Will-worship, and human traditions thrust out Gods pure and sincere worship, when the ministry of the word ceaseth, and in stead thereof lies are published and embraced; when the Sacraments are neglected, or wholly corrupted and depraved, such assemblies whether particular or national, cease to be the Church of Christ, and begin to be the Synagogue of Satan.
Lastly, we may obserue, that howsoeuer the Catholike and invisible Church of Christ, cannot faile and cease to be