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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.
Sometimes it is taken for those which are not the sons of Abraham according to the flesh, but according to the spirit, borne unto him not by nature, but by grace, and according to the promise, Gen. 17. 5. which were all the believers 1amongst the Gentiles that embraced the faith of Abraham. And of both these latter kinds of Israelites, is this prophecy to be understood: first, of the believing Israelites, which from the coming of Christ to the end of the world, should be effectually called by the preaching of the Gospel: neither are they here excluded (as some have imagined, who expound this prophecy only of the calling of the Gentiles) seeing our Saviour professeth, that he was sent in the first place to them: Math. 15. 24. And the Apostle, Rom. 211. 25, 26. That Israel likewise shall be saved, when the fullness of the Gentiles is come in; and seeing many also by the ministry of Christ and his Disciples, were converted to the faith.
Sometimes it is taken for those which are not the sons of Abraham according to the flesh, but according to the spirit, borne vnto him not by nature, but by grace, and according to the promise, Gen. 17. 5. which were all the beleeuers 1amongst the Gentiles that imbraced the faith of Abraham. And of both these latter kindes of Israelites, is this prophecie to be vnderstood: first, of the beleeuing Israelites, which from the comming of Christ to the end of the world, should be effectually called by the preaching of the Gospell: neither are they here excluded (as some haue imagined, who expound this prophecy onely of the calling of the Gentiles) seeing our Sauiour professeth, that he was sent in the first place to them: Math. 15. 24