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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.
But here it may be demanded, how this here is ascribed 1to the Church, to set over them a king and head, seeing in other places this is attributed unto God himself: as Ezech. 34. 23. Ephes. 1. 22. To which I answer, that God the father first and principally doth appoint Christ head and king over the Church; and the people of God do set Christ over themselves, when as they give their mutual assent to Gods appointment, and by a lively faith receive Jesus Christ for their king and head, promising unto him their allegiance and obedience. Thus Saul was appointed and anointed King over Israel by God, 1. Sam, 10. 1. And the people also 2are said to have made him king over them in Gilgal: 1. Sam. 11. 15. So that it is not enough, that Christ should be appointed of God to be our king and head, unless we receive him for our sovereign, yielding unto him our faith and obedience: which if we neglect, notwithstanding God hath appointed him king and head over his Church, yet he is not so unto us.
But here it may be demanded, how this here is ascribed 1to the Church, to set ouer them a king and head, seeing in other places this is attributed vnto God himselfe: as Ezech. 34. 23. Ephes. 1. 22. To which I answere, that God the father first and principally doth appoint Christ head and king ouer the Church; and the people of God do set Christ ouer themselues, when as they giue their mutuall assent to Gods appointment, and by a liuely faith receiue Iesus Christ for their king and head, promising vnto him their alleageance and obedience. Thus Saul was appointed and annointed King ouer Israel by God, 1. Sam, 10. 1. And the people also 2