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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.
Seeing then these words cannot be understood of a carnal and corporal liberty, & deliverance out of a worldly & temporary captivity; it followeth necessarily that we expound them of spiritual liberty and deliverance of the whole Israel of God, his Church and faithful children, consisting of all nations, Jews, Israelites, and Gentiles, out of the miserable ⟨p. 130⟩servitude and captivity of sin, Satan and the world, effected by Jesus Christ their Saviour, and most perfect Redeemer.
Seeing then these words cannot be vnderstood of a carnall and corporal libertie, & deliuerance out of a worldly & temporarie captiuitie; it followeth necessarily that we expound them of spirituall libertie and deliuerance of the whole Israel of God, his Church and faithfull children, consisting of all nations, Iewes, Israelites, and Gentiles, out of the miserable ⟨p. 130⟩seruitude and captiuitie of sinne, Satan and the world, effected by Iesus Christ their Sauiour, and most perfect Redeemer.
And this exposition agreeth well with the context and 1circumstances of the place: for having in the former words showed, that the Church and faithful people of God, belonging to his eternal election, should be effectually called, and being collected and gathered out of the world, should be joined to the Church and kingdom of Christ, he acknowledging them for his subjects and members, and they acknowledging him for their head and king; now he showeth that these who were thus effectually called, should by their Saviour Christ be justified, sanctified, and in the end perfectly glorified. All which he signifieth by this phrase of coming up out of the land, wherein he alludeth to the corporal & local coming up of the people of Judah, out of Babylon to Jerusalem. For as they were set at liberty out of the hands of their enemies, and came up out of their captivity unto the land of Canaan: so the faithful being united to Christ, and having made choice of him to be their king and head, are by him redeemed and set at liberty out of the hands of their spiritual enemies, and come out of the land of their captivity, and out of the dominion of their tyrannous Lords, sin, Satan, the world and the flesh, and so ascend into the spiritual Canaan, and new Jerusalem, that is, first, into the kingdom of grace, and then into the kingdom of glory, where they enjoy the perfect liberty of the sons of God.