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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.
Lastly, their practise is here reproved, who either upon fantastical curiosity, or for commodity, or for fear of punishment, are ready to present their bodies before the idol of the Mass, and to bow before an image, imagining that ⟨p. 298⟩they are to be excused, if they reserve their hearts for God. But let such know, that herein they rob God of his glory, in denying to make public profession of his true religion; they give a grievous offence to their weak brethren, who see their outward practise, and do not see their inward intention; they spoil the Lord of his right, in that they do not worship him in the whole man, but with a part only; they cast themselves into desperate danger, of making a further apostasy from God and his true religion, and of embracing idolatry both in body and mind; they deprive themselves of a good testimony of their own salvation; in a word, they 1deny Jesus Christ and his truth before men, and therefore unless they repent of this sin, he will also deny them before his Father in heaven, as it is Matth. 10. 33.2
Lastly, their practise is here reproued, who either vpon fantasticall curiositie, or for commoditie, or for feare of punishment, are readie to present their bodies before the idoll of the Masse, and to bow before an image, imagining that ⟨p. 298⟩they are to be excused, if they reserue their hearts for God. But let such know, that herein they rob God of his glorie, in denying to make publike profession of his true religion; they giue a grieuous offence to their weake brethren, who see their outward practise, and do not see their inward intention; they spoile the Lord of his right, in that they doe not worship him in the whole man, but with a part onely; they cast themselues into desperate danger, of making a further apostasie from God and his true religion, and of embracing idolatrie both in bodie and minde; they depriue themselues of a good testimonie of their owne saluation; in a word, they 1