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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 hereof is, that we be not deluded with this conceit, that the Lord will accept of any manner of service, so it proceed from a good meaning & intention, for if it have no warrant out of Gods Word, but be repugnant thereunto, whatsoever our meaning and intention be, it is but vvil-worship, superstition and Idolatry in Gods sight. And therefore we must not examine what we intend, but what God requireth; not what we like as most fit and convenient, but what is pleasing unto God. And this examination is to be made not according to our own phantasies and carnal wisdom which as the Apostle saith, is enmity against God, but 1according to the canon and rule of Gods word, which that we may the rather do, let these reasons persuade us: first, because the Lord hath straightly forbidden and condemned all manner of vvil-worship, and in his service hath precisely ⟨p. 255⟩restrained us to his word for our direction. Deu. 5. 32. Take 2heed that you do as the Lord your God hath commanded, turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, And 12. 8. Ye shall not do after all these things, that we do here this day, that is, every man what seemeth him good in his own eyes. And Vers. 32. Whatsoever I command you, take heed you do it, thou shalt 3put nothing thereto nor take ought there from. So Numb. 15. 39 Pro. 30. 5. 6. Ezech. 20. 18. Col. 2. 20.
The vse hereof is, that we be not deluded with this conceipt, that the Lord will accept of any manner of seruice, so it proceed from a good meaning & intention, for if it haue no warrant out of Gods Word, but bee repugnant therevnto, vvhatsoeuer our meaning and intention bee, it is but vvil-worship, superstition and Idolatry in Gods sight. And therefore we must not examine what we intend, but what God requireth; not what we like as most fit and couenient, but what is pleasing vnto God. And this examination is to be made not according to our owne phantasies and carnall wisdome which as the Apostle saith, is emnitie against God, but