A69234:1488
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 of this doctrine is, that when any are suitors unto 1us in the behalf of idols for our love, we give them a speedy answer, and forbid the banes when they are first published, alleging for our selves, that we are already married to our husband Christ, and therefore cannot entertain their love, unless we would become notorious strumpets; that we have already received Christ into our hearts, and therefore there is no place there for idols, seeing there can be no communion between them; that we are the temples of the holy Ghost, which hath no agreement with idols, as the Apostle speaketh, 2. Cor. 6. 16. Yea let us, not only abhor ⟨p. 324⟩2this spiritual whoredom in the grossest kinds, but also withstand all means and occasions thereof, making with Job in another kind a covenant with our eyes, that we will not look upon these alluring harlots; and stopping our ears against all those bewitching panders, who solicit for them, and woo our harts from God and his pure worship. Otherwise such is the inclinableness of our hearts to idolatry and superstition, and in so near a bond of love is corrupted nature and our fleshly part united with idols, that if we give way to the first motions, and suffer our hearts and affections to be joined with them, the knot between us will prove inseparable, and no persuasions will withdraw us from them.
The vse of this doctrine is, that when any are suiters vnto 1vs in the behalfe of idols for our loue, we giue them a speedie answere, and forbid the banes when they are first published, alleaging for our selues, that wee are alreadie married to our husband Christ, and therefore cannot entertaine their loue, vnlesse wee would become notorious strumpets; that we haue alreadie receiued Christ into our hearts, and therefore there is no place there for idols, seeing there can bee no communion betweene them; that we are the temples of the holy Ghost, which hath no agreement with idols, as the Apostle speaketh, 2. Cor. 6. 16