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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.
Yet more especially, we here learn, carefully to avoid the company of idolaters, because such is our inclinableness 1thereunto, that by their example and persuasions, we may easily be corrupted. And this moved the Prophet here to persuade the people of Judah not to go to Gilgal and Bethaven, lest entertaining near familiarity and friendship with the superstitious Israelites, they should be infected with their idolatry. So that here we learn, that the company of idolaters is to be avoided in two respects, 1. that we are not to have any near familiarity and friendship with them, in civill society. Secondly, that we must not join with them in their idolatrous service. In the former respect we are to observe this general rule, not to have any intercourse of dealing with them, further then humane necessity requireth; as for example, when we sell our, or buy their commodities, which only then is lawful, or at least expedient, when we cannot conveniently use the like merchandise in such places where Gods truth is professed and maintained. More especially, here is condemned the near contract of marriage between professors of true religion, & idolaters; the which was the sin of the faithful before the flood, which brought that universal deluge, first of sin, and then of water upon the ⟨p. 295⟩whole earth, Gen. 6. 2. this was Solomons sin whereby he was 2drawn unto idolatry, 1. King. 11. 4. and the chief cause of Ahab's wickedness, because he had linked himself in marriage with idolatrous Jezebel, as appeareth, 1. King. 16. 31. So 3this is rendered as a reason, why Jehoram the son of good Jehoshaphat, forsook his fathers steps, and committed gross idolatry, because he married Ahab's daughter, 2. King. 8. 18. 4