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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.
And as hereby is signified the eternity of our heavenly father, so there is implied also the eternity of us his children; For, as Christ saith, God is not the God of the dead, but of the 1living, so may I say, he is not a father of the dead, but of the living: And if we his children should not live together with him, though he is a God, yet he should not be a father, saving of his only begotten son Jesus Christ, seeing there is a mutual relation between a father and children.
And as hereby is signified the eternitie of our heauenlie father, so there is implied also the eternitie of vs his children; For, as Christ saith, God is not the God of the dead, but of the 1liuing, so may I say, hee is not a father of the dead, but of the liuing: And if we his children should not liue together with him, though he is a God, yet he should not be a father, sauing of his onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ, seeing there is a mutuall relation betweene a father and children.
And thus much for the meaning of the words. The doctrines The doctrines. which arise out of them are divers. First, we may observe 1the amplitude and largeness of Gods Church in the time of the Gospel; seeing it is not now confined within the borders of Canaan, but extendeth it self over the whole earth to all nations and countries without any restraint or exception; For in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness is accepted of him, as it is, Act. 10. 35.2