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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
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Secondly, whereas it is said, that the Church of Christ 1should be multiplied like the sands by the sea side; this serveth to confute the dotage of the Brownists, who imagine that there is no true Church but themselves, and such as are reformed according to their own phantasies: an example whereof is not to be found in all Christendom, as may appear by their own practise, who have refused to join with those Churches which are most reformed. For if in the time of the Gospel the Church of Christ must be multiplied like the sands in number, then certainly it cannot be restrained to their conventicles, scarcely deserving the name of a congregation.
Secondly, whereas it is said, that the Church of Christ 1should be multiplied like the sands by the sea side; this serueth to confute the dotage of the Brownists, who imagine that there is no true Church but themselues, and such as are reformed according to their owne phantasies: an example whereof is not to be found in all Christendome, as may appeare by their owne practise, who haue refused to ioyne with those Churches which are most reformed. For if in the time of the Gospell the Church of Christ must be multiplied like the sands in number, then certainely it cannot be restrained to their conuenticles, scarsely deseruing the name of a congregation.
- 1The dotage of the Brownists confuted.
Lastly, here we may observe the certainty of the calling 1of the Gentiles; for the Israel of God must be multiplied like unto the stars and sands in number: but this cannot be understood of the sons of Abraham according to the flesh, whose number since the coming of Christ is not multiplied, but exceedingly diminished: and concerning them God saith, that though the children of Israel were as the sands of the sea yet shall but a remnant be saved: