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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.
So that if they will needs vaunt themselves of their titles, that they are Gods people and Church, and in their privileges which they have above others, they do but glory in their shame, seeing they are so many arguments to aggravate their sins and ungrateful wickedness, in that they are worse then the Turks and infidels in her idolatry and superstition, especially in this respect, that they have had many singular means granted ⟨p. 235⟩them by God for their conversion and reformation, which the other have wanted, and yet notwithstanding all Gods mercies, persist in their apostasy and rebellion.
So that if they will needes vaunt themselues of their titles, that they are Gods people and Church, and in their priuiledges which they haue aboue others, they doe but glory in their shame, seeing they are so many arguments to aggrauate their sinnes and vngratefull wickednesse, in that they are worse then the Turkes and infidels in her idolatrie and superstition, especially in this resspect, that they haue had many singular meanes graunted ⟨p. 235⟩them by God for their conversion and reformation, which the other haue wanted, and yet notwithstanding all Gods mercies, persist in their apostacie and rebellion.
The second thing to be observed is, that the Lord condemneth 1it as a heinous sin, to worship Images, and to ask counsel of stocks & stones. And in truth what grosser Idolatry can be imagined then to give that honour and worship which is proper the unto Lord, to the works of mens hands, as to fall down before a base Idol, to creep unto it, to invocate it, and to offer unto it vows and oblations? nevertheless how sottishly absurd soever this Idolatry be, yet hath it many patrons amongst those who make profession of Christianity, namely, the whole Church of Rome, who allow by their doctrine and practise, both the making and worshipping of Images, not only of God himself and the three persons in Trinity, but also of Angels and Saints. But we are to abhor this gross Idolatry, as being in the word of God condemned as impious, and derided as sottish and ridiculous. It is expressly condemned in the second commandment, Thou shalt not make unto thy self any graven Image, &c. So