A69234:437
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.
Secondly, we may observe the infinite mercy of God, who when his spouse the Church, had innumerable times 1committed spiritual whoredom with idols, and professed her filthiness like an impudent harlot openly to all the world, yet laboureth to bring her to repentance, that so he might receive her to grace and favour again: for to this end ⟨p. 165⟩he causeth her sins to be laid before her, and the divorce between him and her to be denounced; not because he hated her, or was delighted with her rejection and destruction, but that she might forsake her idolatry, which so impudently she professed, and return unto him her Lord & husband, that so he might receive her to grace, and pardon her former wickedness. And therefore when we hear our sins sharply reproved, and the judgements of God denounced, let us not think that this is done for want of love either in God or in his Ministers; but to this end, that we should hereby be brought to true repentance, and so be received into Gods grace and favour.
Secondly, wee may obserue the infinite mercy of God, who when his spouse the Church, had innumerable times 1committed spirituall whoredome with idols, and professed her filthinesse like an impudent harlot openly to all the world, yet laboureth to bring her to repentance, that so hee might receiue her to grace and fouour againe: for to this end ⟨p. 165⟩he causeth her sinnes to be laid before her, and the diuorce betweene him and her to be denounced; not because he hated her, or was delighted with her reiection and destruction, but that she might forsake her idolatry, which so impudently she professed, and returne vnto him her Lord & husband, that so he might receiue her to grace, and pardon her former wickednesse. And therefore when we heare our sinnes sharply reproued, and the iudgements of God denounced, let vs not thinke that this is done for want of loue either in God or in his Ministers; but to this end, that wee should hereby bee brought to true repentance, and so bee receiued into Gods grace and fauour.
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