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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.
Secondly, we here observe, who is the chief and principal 1cause of our gathering together into the Church; namely, ⟨p. 119⟩our Saviour Christ; for we were like wandering sheep gone astray in the wilderness of the world, continually under the power, and at the command of the spiritual wolf Satan, who at pleasure might pray upon us, notwithstanding any resistance we were able to make: out of which dangers we could by no means quit our selves, seeing the eyes of our minds were so blinded with ignorance, that we could not find the way to our sheepfold, the Church of God, where only is safety and security; nay rather we were ready more and more to wander and lose our selves in the Labyrinth of our own errors; and though we had got some small glimpse of the right way, yet we were so entangled in the briers of our sins and corruptions, that we could not have travailed in it. And in this fearful condition we remained, till Christ our good shepherd came to seek us, and having found us, carried us on his shoulders into his sheepfold of grace and happiness.
Secondly, we here obserue, who is the chiefe and principall 1cause of our gathering together into the Church; namely, ⟨p. 119⟩our Sauiour Christ; for we were like wandring sheep gone astray in the wildernesse of the world, continually vnder the power, and at the command of the spirituall wolfe Satan, who at pleasure might pray vpon vs, notwithstanding any resistance we were able to make: out of which dangers we could by no meanes quit our selues, seeing the eyes of our mindes were so blinded with ignorance, that we could not finde the way to our sheepfold, the Church of God, where onely is safety and security; nay rather we were ready more and more to wander and lose our selues in the Labyrinth of our owne errors; and though we had got some smal glimpse of the right way, yet we were so intangled in the brires of our sinnes and corruptions, that we could not haue trauailed in it. And in this fearefull condition we remained, till Christ our good shepheard came to seeke vs, and hauing found vs, carried vs on his shoulders into his sheepfold of grace and happinesse.