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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.
The second degree of their ascension out of the kingdom of sin and Satan, into the kingdom of glory, is at the time of their dissolution, when their bodies resting ⟨p. 134⟩in the grave, their souls have entrance into a real possession of the heavenly joys. And of this the Wise man speaketh, Eccles. 12. 7. And dust returns to the earth as it 1was, and the spirit returns to God that gave it. And the Apostle Paul thus desireth to be dissolved, that his soul might be with Christ: Phil. 1. 23.2
The second degree of their ascension out of the kingdome of sinne and Satan, into the kingdome of glorie, is at the time of their dissolution, when their bodies resting ⟨p. 134⟩in the graue, their soules haue entrance into a reall possession of the heauenly ioyes. And of this the Wise man speaketh, Eccles. 12. 7. And dust returnes to the earth as it 1was, and the spirit returnes to God that gaue it. And the Apostle Paul thus desireth to bee dissolued, that his soule might be with Christ: Phil. 1. 23.2