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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.
Secondly, it behoveth us to embrace Gods pure and sincere 1worship prescribed in his word, and to avoid vvil-worship & our own superstitious devotions, because when we have spent our time and even tired our selves in these things all our labour will be spent in vain. So the Lord himself saith, Mat. 15. 9. In vain they worship me, teaching 2for doctrines mens precepts. And the Apostle saith that human inventions and traditions, as touch not, taste not, handle not, do perish in the using. Col. 2. 22. For if we would have 3any wages for our labour, we must do the Lords work which himself hath commanded, otherwise he vvill demand of us, as he did of the Israelites, Isaiah 1 12. Who hath 4required these things at your hands. And vvill say unto us, as he did to the Priests and people of Israel, Zach. 7. 5. When ye 5fasted and mourned did ye fast unto me? did I approve it? and when ye did eat and drink, did ye not eat and drink for your selves? should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the ministry of the former Prophets? &c. The reason hereof is plain, for as the Lord hath appointed us to travail, so also he hath appointed our way, out of which whosoever turneth aside, the faster he goeth the further he is from the end of his journey, and so spendeth his labour not only in vain but to loss. This is the way walk in it. If we would offer our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable serving of God, we must not follow our own inventions nor humane traditions, but labour to find out what is the good will of God, acceptable, and perfect, as it is, Rom. 12. 1. 2. And if we would do good