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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 time when they should be gathered, was not present, but to come; and this is signified by the future tense here used: that is, not in the time of the Law, but of the Gospel, when the true Messiah should be exhibited.
The time when they should be gathered, was not present, but to come; and this is signified by the future tense here vsed: that is, not in the time of the Law, but of the Gospell, when the true Messias should be exhibited.
The person by whom this union should be made, was not themselves, who rather were ready more and more to wander and go astray, but Jesus Christ their great and only true shepherd: and therefore he saith, not that they should assemble themselves; but that they should be gathered together, namely by another; that is, Christ: so Isaiah. 11. 12. He shall set up a sign to the Nations, and assemble the dispersed 1Israel, and gather the dispersed Judah from the four corners of the world. John 10. 16. Other sheep I have also which 2are not of this fold; them also must I bring, &c. John 11. 52. Eph. 2. 14.
The person by whom this vnion should be made, was not themselues, who rather were ready more and more to wander and go astray, but Iesus Christ their great and onely true shepheard: and therefore he saith, not that they should assemble themselues; but that they should be gathered together, namely by another; that is, Christ: so Esai. 11. 12