A69234:263
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 Lord had in former times made choice of the children of Israel, amongst all the nations of the world to be his Church and people, according to that, Deut. 32. 9. For the 1Lords portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance: with them he made his covenant, and upon them, as being his own peculiar people, and proper family, he multiplied his benefits, with a more liberal hand, then upon any other nation. But when Israel observed not the condition of the covenant, but renounced the service of God, went a whoring after idols, and when neither Gods mercies would move them to love him, nor his judgements to fear him, nor both joined together could reclaim them from their wicked ways, and bring them to repentance, the Lord casteth them off as being a desperate cure, and finally rejecteth them from being his Church and people.
The Lord had in former times made choice of the children of Israel, amongst all the nations of the world to be his Church and people, according to that, Deut. 32. 9. For the 1Lords portion is his people: Iacob is the lot of his inheritance: with them hee made his couenant, and vpon them, as being his owne peculiar people, and proper familie, he multiplied his benefits, with a more liberall hand, then vpon any other nation. But when Israel obserued not the condition of the couenant, but renounced the seruice of God, went a whoring after idols, and when neither Gods mercies would moue them to loue him, nor his iudgements to feare him, nor both ioyned together could reclaime them from their wicked waies, and bring them to repentance, the Lord casteth them off as being a desperate cure, and finally reiecteth them from being his Church and people.