A69234:472
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 is the more principal cause why these children are punished, because they liked and approved, embraced and lived in the idolatry of their mother; for not simply to have been the children and members of an idolatrous Church, nor to have been brought up and instructed in her idolatries, is a cause which moveth the Lord to reject any; if afterwards they hate and forsake the idolatry of their mother, and love and embrace the pure and sincere worship of God. The which was the state of many of Gods children in the common apostasy of the Israelites; and is the state of many who have come out of the spiritual Babylon, being begotten unto God by the immortal seed of his word.
And this is the more principall cause why these children are punished, because they liked and approued, imbraced and liued in the idolatry of their mother; for not simply to haue been the children and members of an idolatrous Church, nor to haue been brought vp and instructed in her idolatries, is a cause which moueth the Lord to reiect any; if afterwards they hate and forsake the idolatry of their mother, and loue and imbrace the pure and sincere worship of God. The which was the state of many of Gods children in the common apostasie of the Israelites; and is the state of many who haue come out of the spirituall Babylon, being begotten vnto God by the immortall seede of his word.
But these of whom the Prophet speaketh, had not only in times past been, but presently were the children of fornications; they were not only brought up in idolatry, but still they liked and lived in it: and this he implieth when as he faith; not that they had been, but presently were the children of fornication.
But these of whom the Prophet speaketh, had not onely in times past been, but presently were the children of fornications; they were not onely brought vp in idolatry, but still they liked and liued in it: and this he implieth when as he faith; not that they had been, but presently were the children of fornication.