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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.
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.
And this exposition agreeth well with the context and 1circumstances of the place: for hauing in the former words shewed, that the Church and faithfull people of God, belonging to his eternall election, should be effectually called, and being collected and gathered out of the world, should be ioyned to the Church and kingdome of Christ, hee acknowledging them for his subiects and members, and they acknowledging him for their head and king; now hee sheweth that these who were thus effectually called, should by their Sauiour Christ bee iustified, sanctified, and in the end perfectly glorified. All which he signifieth by this phrase of comming vp out of the land, wherein he alludeth to the corporal & local comming vp of the people of Iuda, out of Babylon to Ierusalem. For as they were set at libertie out of the hands of their enemies, and came vp out of their captiuitie vnto the land of Canaan: so the faithfull being vnited to Christ, and hauing made choice of him to bee their king and head, are by him redeemed and set at libertie out of the hands of their spirituall enemies, and come out of the land of their captiuitie, and out of the dominion of their tyrannous Lords, sinne, Satan, the world and the flesh, and so ascend into the spirituall Canaan, and new Ierusalem, that is, first, into the kingdome of grace, and then into the kingdom of glorie, where they inioy the perfect libertie of the sonnes of God.