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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 third thing to be observed is, that our good intentions 1in Gods service, which have no ground in his word, are nothing else but will-worship and superstition. The Israelites made choice to worship in the groves and under the green trees, because the shadow thereof was good, that is, because they thought these pleasant places and delightful shade in the sweet and open air, were most fit and convenient for religious worship: but because this their good intention was contrary to Gods word, which restrained public service & sacrifices unto the Temple at Jerusalem, their good meaning could not privilege them from the just censure of Idolatry and Superstition. So Aaron in a good intention made 2a golden calf. Exod. 32. 1. 5. But it was condemned and punished as gross Idolatry. Gideon in a good intention made 3an Ephod of the Midianitish pray, but it was an occasion of Idolatry, and the ruin of his house; and Micahs mother in a good intention made a molten Image, Judg. 17. 3. and 4Micah himself consecrated one of his sons to be a priest unto it, Verse. 5. and entertained a Levite for the same purpose, with the like good meaning, and yet nevertheless all this was but gross superstition and Idolatry in Gods sight.
The third thing to be obserued is, that our good intentions 1in Gods seruice, which haue no ground in his word, are nothing else but wil-worship and superstition. The Israelites made choyse to worship in the groues and vnder the greene trees, because the shadow thereof was good, that is, because they thought these pleasant places and delightfull shade in the sweet and open ayre, were most fit and conuenient for religious worship: but because this their good intention was contrary to Gods word, which restrayned publike seruice & sacrifices vnto the Temple at Ierusalem, their good meaning could not priuiledge them from the just censure of Idolatrie and Superstition. So Aaron in a good intention made