A69234:1309
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.
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. Exod. 32. 4. 5. So 1Micah his mother saith, that she had dedicated the silver unto the Lord, to make a graven and molten Image. Jud. 17. 3. 2So Jeroboam having made the golden Calves, saith: behold O Israel thy Gods which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: 1 King. 12. 28. that is, the Image and similitude which representeth 3the true God: neither would any have been so sottish as to believe that the Calves which themselves had lately made, had freed their fore-fathers out of their captivity. And as we have heard the people worshipped not the Image of Baal, but God in the Image: and therefore the Lord saith, they should no more call him Baali. Chap. 2. ver. 416. Yea even the heathens themselves thus excused their Idolatry, as Augustine witnesseth: Non ego illum lapidem colo 5& adoro quem video, sed seruio ei quem non video. Quis est ille? Numen quoddam invisibile quod praesidet illi simulachro: that is, I do not serve and worship that stone which I see, but I serve him whom I do not see. And who is he? a certain invisible and Divine power which hath the charge of that Image.
Secondly, their excuse is vaine, seeing this is that Idolatry which is so much condemned in the Scriptures: for the Israelites when they worshipped Images, did professe that they did not worship the Idols of wood and stone, but God in them; so when they made a golden Calfe in the wildernesse, they had therein a respect to God, who brought them out of the land of Aegypt, and professed that in it they worshipped the true Iehouah, as appeareth.