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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.
The second thing to be considered, is, the parties who are exalted unto this high dignity; namely, they to whom it was 1said; ye are not my people. Now we may be said to be, or not to the people of God three ways: first, in respect of his eternal decree of predestination: so Rom. 11. 2. God hath not cast away his people whom he knew before. Secondly, in respect of admission into the covenant of works; in which respects the Israelites were called peculiarly the people of God: Deut. 7. 6. 14. 2, 26. 18. Exod. 19. 5, 6. Thirdly, in respect of our 2admission into the covenant of grace: so Hos. 2. 1. Tit. 2. 14.
The second thing to be considered, is, the parties who are exalted vnto this high dignity; namely, they to whom it was 1said; ye are not my people. Now we may be said to be, or not to the people of God three waies: first, in respect of his eternall decree of predestination: so Rom. 11. 2. God hath not cast away his people whom he knew before. Secondly, in respect of admission into the couenant of workes; in which respects the Israelites were called peculiarly the people of God: Deut. 7. 6. 14. 2, 26. 18. Exod. 19. 5, 6. Thirdly, in respect of our 2admission into the couenant of grace: so