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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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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: Isai. 10. 21. 2Rom. 9. 27. and therefore it must needs be understood of the whole Church of God, both Jews and Gentiles gathered together, by the preaching of the Gospel. The like testimonies we have concerning the calling of the Gentiles, Psa. 2. 8. 3where God the Father promiseth to his son that he would give him the heathen for his inheritance: and Esa. 2. 2. it is said, ⟨p. 105⟩4that all nations shall flow unto the house of God. So Esa. 65. 1. 5Amos 9. 11. 12. Joh. 10. 16.
Lastly, here we may obserue the certaintie of the calling 1of the Gentiles; for the Israel of God must bee multiplied like vnto the starres and sands in number: but this cannot bee vnderstood of the sonnes of Abraham according to the flesh, whose number since the comming 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 saued: