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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 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
And thus much for the meaning of the words. The doctrines The doctrines. which arise out of them are diuers. First, we may obserue 1the amplitude and largenes of Gods Church in the time of the Gospell; seeing it is not now confined within the borders of Canaan, but extendeth it selfe ouer the whole earth to all nations and countries without any restraint or exception; For in euery nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him, as it is, Act. 10. 35.2
- 1The largeness of Gods Church.The largenes of Gods Church.
- 2Act. 10. 35.
Secondly, we are to observe, that there first goeth an exclusion 1from being Gods people, before an admission to the being his sons: by which order the Lord would signify that our adoption and salvation cometh of his free grace and goodness, and not of any worthiness and merit in us: the Israelites were so wicked that they were thrust out of Gods service, and the Gentiles so profane and sinful, that they were altogether unworthy to be admitted into it, and therefore both far from meriting any thing but death and condemnation; and yet such was Gods infinite mercy, that when they were in this case unworthy of the least glimpse of his favour, he caused the bright beams of his love with full rays to shine on both, by the death of his son reconciling them unto himself, who before were strangers and enemies. And this the Apostle notably showeth,