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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.
Furthermore, speaking of the Kingdom of Christ over 1his Church, he doth not say, that they should set him over them for their King, but for their head; which he purposely doth, to show the near union that is between Christ and his Church; for there is a far more near conjunction and union between the head and the body, then is or can be between the King and his subjects.
Furthermore, speaking of the Kingdome of Christ ouer 1his Church, he doth not say, that they should set him ouer them for their King, but for their head; which he purposely doth, to shew the neere vnion that is betweene Christ and his Church; for there is a far more neere coniunction and vnion betweene the head and the body, then is or can be betweene the King and his subiects.
- 1Christ the only head of the Church.
Now this so agreeth to Christ to be the head of his church, as that it agreeth to no other besides him; for it was necessary that the head of the church should be both God and man: for if he had bin God alone, there could have bin no proportion, and consequently, no communion between the head & the members; if man alone, he could not have quickened his body, which was dead in sin, nor offered to God the Father a sufficient price for the redemption thereof, nor vanquished the spiritual enemies of our salvation, the devil, the world, sin, death, and the grave. It was necessary therefore that our head should be of both the divine and humane nature, that he might be united unto us, and unite us unto God: and so as the Father is his head, so he might be head of his Church; as the Apostle speaketh, 1. Cor. 11. 3.1