A69234:1323
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 here he accuseth and condemneth them of a double sin; the first was their Idolatry, whereby they worshipped God in Idols and Images of wood and stone, contrary to the express Word of God, both in the second commandment and else where: the second was that they worshipped in prohibited places; for the Lord had expressly charged them that they should offer their sacrifices in no place, but in his Tabernacle and Temple, and that they should erect no other Alters, but the Alter for the burnt offerings and for the incense, which himself had caused to be made, and placed first in the Tabernacle, and then in the Temple, as appeareth. Deut. 12. 11. 13. 14. 2 Chro. 7. 12. Exod. 20. 24. 1Deut. 27. 5. 6. 7. Jos. 22. 10. 16. 19. Both that he might hereby restrain them from will-worship, and also that he might typically teach them, that as they had but one Temple to serve in, so they had but one God to serve; as they had but one Alter for their sacrifices, and one for their incense, so there was but one Mediator which sanctified all their oblations, and perfumed all their prayers, whereby they became like sweet odours in Gods nostrils.
So that here he accuseth and condemneth them of a double sinne; the first was their Idolatrie, wherby they worshipped God in Idols and Images of wood and stone, contrary to the expresse Word of God, both in the second commandement and else where: the second was that they worshipped in prohibited places; for the Lord had expresly charged them that they should offer their sacrifices in no place, but in his Tabernacle and Temple, and that they should erect no other Alters, but the Alter for the burnt offrings and for the incense, which himselfe had caused to be made, and placed first in the Tabernacle, and then in the Temple, as appeareth. Deut. 12. 11. 13. 14.