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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 use of this Doctrine is, first that we laud and magnify 1the name of our gracious God, who hath freed us from this more then Egyptian darkness of Idolatry and superstition, and hath placed us in his Goshen and true Church, where by the clear shining light of his Gospel he hath dispelled these foggy mists of sottish ignorance, and hath plainly discovered even to the eyes of little children those doltish follies, with which the wisest of their fore-fathers were blinded and mislead.
The vse of this Doctrine is, first that we laude and magnifie 1the name of our gracious God, who hath freed vs from this more then Aegyptian darknesse of Idolatry and superstition, and hath placed vs in his Goshen and true Church, where by the cleare shining light of his Gospell he hath dispelled these foggy mists of sottish ignorance, and hath plainly discouered euen to the eyes of little children those doltish follies, with which the wisest of their fore-fathers were blinded and misllead.
- 1We must laud Gods name for freeing us from popish idolatryWe must laud Gods name for freeing vs from popish idolatry
Secondly, it serveth to admonish us, that we do not with ⟨p. 239⟩the unthankful Israelites desire to return again into this 1Egyptian servitude, because we would enjoy those pompous pleasures which the advocates of Rome do offer unto us, but that we rather make choice of the afflicted way of gods truth, which will in the end bring us to the heavenly Canaan. And to this purpose we must avoid not only the grosest kinds of Idolatry and superstition, but also all the petite sorts thereof, yea we must carefully fly the means of idolatry, as will-worship, society with Idolaters, especially in that near bond of marriage, ignorance of Gods true religion, whereby we make our selves like blind men, which may easily be led any way, and as it were an easy pray to be devoured of those locusts, the Priests, and Jesuits, which are come out of the bottomless pit.