A69234:1324
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.
But they neglected the commandments of God, and erected altars, and offered sacrifices upon the hills and mountains; imitating therein the heathenish Gentiles, who erected their Temples in woods and groves upon the tops of hills, according to that:
But they neglected the commaundements of God, and erected altars, and offred sacrifices vpon the hils and mountaines; imitating therein the heathenish Gentiles, who erected their Temples in woods and groues vpon the tops of hils, according to that:
Whereof also their Temples were called Phana, because in respect of their high situation they were eminent and conspicuous; to which they were moved by these considerations, because being more stately & majestical, they thought ⟨p. 246⟩them more fit for divine worship, and also because they thought these places in regard of their eminency nearer unto heaven, which is the place of Gods chief residence, wherein they preferred heathenish will-worship and their own natural reason before the express word of God.