A69234:1308
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.
And thus they object for their making of Images: now 1for their worshipping of them, which is the grosest kind of Idolatry, and so extremely repugnant to the word of God; they allege in their excuse that they do not worship the Images themselves, but only so far forth as they have relation with the things whereof they are Images. To which I answer, that this excuse is both false and vain: the falsehood of their doctrine appeareth by their practise, for if they did not worship the images themselves, to what purpose did they by their devices give unto them a seeming life and motion, as the turning of the eyes, the moving of the hands, and the bending of the head and body, and why was one Image had in great esteem, & another image of the same Saint neglected and disregarded?
And thus they object for their making of Images: now 1for their worshipping of them, which is the grosest kinde of Idolatry, and so extreamely repugnant to the word of God; they alledge in their excuse that they doe not worship the Images themselues, but onely so far forth as they haue relation with the things wherof they are Images. To which I answere, that this excuse is both false and vaine: the falshood of their doctrine appeareth by their practise, for if they did not worship the images themselues, to what purpose did they by their deuices giue vnto them a seeming life and motion, as the turning of the eies, the mouing of the hands, and the bending of the head and body, and why was one Image had in great esteeme, & another image of the same Saint negiected and disregarded?
- 1The popish excuse for worshipping images answered.
Secondly, their excuse is vain, seeing this is that Idolatry which is so much condemned in the Scriptures: for the Israelites when they worshipped Images, did profess that they did not worship the Idols of wood and stone, but God in them; so when they made a golden Calf in the wilderness, they had therein a respect to God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and professed that in it they worshipped the true Jehovah, as appeareth.