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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 confuteth popish pilgrimages unto Rome 1and the Holy land: for though these places retained still their ancient dignity, and maintained still Gods pure religion, yet have we no reason to go unto them to worship God; seeing in the time of the Gospel all difference of places is taken away. Neither are we now restrained to mount Gerazim, or Jerusalem, or Rome, or any other place, but this only is required, that as God is a spirit, infinite, and omnipresent, so we worship him in spirit and truth, as it is Joh. 4. 23. To this purpose 2one saith: Non Hierosolymam vidisse, sed Hierosolymis bene vixisse laudandum est: It is no commendation to have seen Jerusalem, but to have lived well at Jerusalem, that is praise worthy. Another saith: Non terrena sed coelestis Hierosolyma 3requirenda est, non pedibus proficiscendo, sed affectibus proficiendo: that is, We must not seek after the earthly but the heavenly Jerusalem, not by pilgrimage on foot, but by bettering our affections. How much less then are we now to travail unto these places, seeing these Beth-else are become Beth-avens? and howsoever they were heretofore the places of Gods ⟨p. 300⟩worship, yet are they now utterly degenerate, being wholly devoted to Turkism, Antichristianism, superstition and idolatry: and therefore having lost their ancient dignity, and now become infamous, we are not to esteem them as they were, but as they are, nor to go unto them, lest they taint us also with their superstitions and idolatry.
Secondly, it confuteth popish pilgrimages vnto Rome 1and the Holy land: for though these places retained still their ancient diguity, and maintained still Gods pure religion, yet haue wee no reason to goe vnto them to worship God; seeing in the time of the Gospell all difference of places is taken away. Neither are we now restrained to mount Gerazim, or Ierusalem, or Rome, or any other place, but this only is required, that as God is a spirit, infinite, and omnipresent, so wee worship him in spirit and truth, as it is