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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.
First then they must ascend out of the kingdom of darkness, 1sin and Satan, into the kingdom of grace: which is done first, when as Jesus Christ hath effectually called them, gathered them into his Church, and united them unto himself, making them members of his own body, by virtue of his holy spirit, and the fruit thereof a lively faith. By which union they have right and propriety unto the righteousness, death and merits of Christ their head, whereby they are justified in the sight of God: for the justice of God being fully satisfied by the death and merits of Christ, and the debt of our sins being discharged, they are pardoned and done away, and we being clothed with his righteousness and actual ⟨p. 132⟩obedience, are accepted and reputed of God as just, and so reconciled unto him, and adopted for his sons in Christ. And this is the first kind of our ascending out of the land and kingdom of darkness, when as we are freed and delivered out of the power of Satan and sin, in respect both of the guilt and punishment thereof; so that now it cannot condemn us, nor any longer detain us as prisoners under the arrest of the law, in the prison of death and utter darkness. And of this ascension the Apostle speaketh, Ephes. 2. 4. 5. 6.
First then they must ascend out of the kingdome of darkenes, 1sinne and Satan, into the kingdome of grace: which is done first, when as Iesus Christ hath effectually called them, gathered them into his Church, and vnited them vnto himselfe, making them members of his owne body, by vertue of his holy spirit, and the fruit thereof a liuely faith. By which vnion they haue right and propriety vnto the righteousnes, death and merits of Christ their head, whereby they are iustified in the sight of God: for the iustice of God being fullie satisfied by the death and merits of Christ, and the debt of our sinnes being discharged, they are pardoned and done away, and we being clothed with his righteousnesse and actuall ⟨p. 132⟩obedience, are accepted and reputed of God as iust, and so reconciled vnto him, and adopted for his sonnes in Christ. And this is the first kind of our ascending out of the land and kingdome of darkenesse, when as we are freed and deliuered out of the power of Satan and sinne, in respect both of the guilt and punishment thereof; so that now it cannot condemne vs, nor any longer detaine vs as prisoners vnder the arrest of the law, in the prison of death and vtter darkenesse. And of this ascension the Apostle speaketh,