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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.
Concerning the first: by the Lord their God; we are to understand the true Messiah Jesus Christ, the eternal Jehovah 1with his Father and holy Spirit; who only saveth and delivereth his Church out of the hands of their enemies, and procureth for them eternal salvation and happiness: first, as the meritorious cause; for his sake and merits we have salvation, and all other benefits derived unto us from God the Father; who if he should behold us out of his Son in our sins and corruptions, would in stead of benefits, heap upon us plagues and punishments; and in stead of salvation, would plunge us into everlasting death and destruction. And secondly, as the efficient cause of our salvation: for the Father saveth us, but by his Son, who is his strong power, whereby he not only created us, but also hath redeemed and saved us.
Concerning the first: by the Lord their God; we are to vnderstand the true Messias Iesus Christ, the eternall Iehoua 1with his Father and holy Spirit; who onely saueth and deliuereth his Church out of the hands of their enemies, and procureth for them eternall saluation and happinesse: first, as the meritorious cause; for his sake and merits we haue saluation, and all other benefits deriued vnto vs from God the Father; who if he should behold vs out of his Sonne in our sinnes and corruptions, would in stead of benefits, heape vpon vs plagues and punishments; and in stead of saluation, would plunge vs into euerlasting death and destruction. And secondly, as the efficient cause of our saluation: for the Father saueth vs, but by his Son, who is his strong power, whereby he not onely created vs, but also hath redeemed and saued vs.
Moreover he saith, that he would save them by the Lord their God, rather then that he would save them by himself: to the end that he might hereby signify, not only that the house of Judah did make choice of him the true God, whom they worshipped and served; but also that he was not the God of the Israelites, seeing they had forsaken him, and betaken themselves to the worship of idols.