A69234:479
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.
Now as they are rightly called bastards, which are not begotten of the lawful husband, but of the seed of a stranger: so the Lord in respect of the spiritual generation, accounteth them bastards which he hath not begotten by the immortal seed of his word, made powerful by the inward 1operation of his Spirit. And therefore those who are begotten unto the Church by false doctrines and lying spirits, and according to their birth are so brought up, they are to be accounted the children of fornications.
Now as they are rightly called bastards, which are not begotten of the lawfull husband, but of the seed of a stranger: so the Lord in respect of the spirituall generation, accounteth them bastards which hee hath not begotten by the immortall seede of his word, made powerfull by the inward 1opperation of his Spirit. And therefore those who are begotten vnto the Church by false doctrines and lying spirits, and according to their birth are so brought vp, they are to be accounted the children of fornications.
But such was the birth and bringing up of these children, for their mother the Church of Israel, under the reign of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, committed spiritual whoredom, when as forsaking the Lord, she worshipped the golden calves in Dan and Bethel; & whilst she played the harlot, the posterity which came of her were borne unto the idols, when as being brought up in ignorance destitute of the knowledge of God and his religion, they were instructed in false doctrine and idolatry, and so became as gross idolaters as their predecessors. And therefore being in adulterous issue of an adulterous mother, both she and they were justly rejected.