A69234:309
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 amplitude of place is described in these words: And in that place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people. Others read it thus: Et pro eo quod dicebatur, &c. and for that, or in stead of that, &c. understanding it only of the change of speech, and not of amplitude of place: as Pagnine and Tremellius. But for as much as the other translation agreeth with the original, with antiquity, with their own translation of the like phrase, Levit. 4. 24. Jer. 22. 12. and seeing also the Apostle Paul inspired with the same spirit, retaineth 1the same, Rom. 9. 26. therefore I rather embrace it then the other. The meaning of this phrase is this, that God 2would gather unto himself a Church, not out of Canaan only: but out of all places, and from amongst all nations, which were not called in times past the people of God, or which were called, Not my people. Now in all places and nations ⟨p. 106⟩of the world it might be said of them before the coming of Christ, that they were not Gods people, saving in Judea only: and therefore God here promiseth, that his Church and the world should have the same limits, and that he would gather it out of all nations, which in times past had not been his people.
The amplitude of place is described in these words: And in that place where it was said vnto them, ye are not my people. Others reade it thus: Et pro eo quod dicebatur, &c. and for that, or in stead of that, &c. vnderstanding it onely of the change of speech, and not of amplitude of place: as Pagnine and Tremellius. But for as much as the other translation agreeth with the originall, with antiquitie, with their owne translation of the like phrase, Leuit. 4. 24. Ier. 22. 12. and seeing also the Apostle Paul inspired with the same spirit, retaineth