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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 Commander is Jehovah, who doth not speak unto 1the people immediately by his own voice, but by his Prophet Hosea: the word in the original signifieth that the Lord ⟨p. 27⟩spake in Hosea; which some expound, that the Lord spake unto Hosea; some, that he spake with Hosea; some, that he spake by Hosea: but somewhat more is here to be understood; namely, that he so spake by him, as that also he spake in him, prompting him as it were by his Spirit, what he should deliver from him to the people. In the first verse it is said, that the word of the Lord came to Hosea: by which we are to understand, not only that the Lord barely spake unto the Prophet, for so the Lord also speaketh to all whom he instructeth by his word; but that he spake unto him immediately by himself, and not as unto an ordinary man, but as unto his Prophet, whom he sent as his ambassador unto the people, with his word in his mouth, which he was to deliver unto them, as in Gods own person. Here it is said, that the Lord spake not only to him, and by him, (for he spake also by Balaam's Ass unto his Master, using him as his instrument to reprove the Prophets folly) but also that he spake in him, because the Spirit of God dwelling in him, directed his tongue; so that he delivered nothing according to his own inventions, but the pure word of God. The like phrase is used, 2. Sam. 23. 2. Haba. 2. 1. Heb. 1. 1. [Greek or Hebrew] 22. Cor. 13. 3. Seeing ye have experience of Christ that speaketh in me. Matth. 10. 20. For it is not you that spake, but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. By all which places it appeareth, that God dwelling in his Prophets, Apostles, and Ministers by his holy Spirit, doth use them as his instruments in his own stead, to deliver his word unto his people.
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