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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 first branch of their sin was, they did not know that 1God gave unto them their gifts which they had received: whereby we are not to imagine that the Israelites were so blind and ignorant, as to think that they had all these benefits from their Idols only, and not from Jehovah, the God of Israel; for many of the Heathens though they worshipped Idols and petty gods, yet by the light of nature knew that there was a chief and superior power who was the original fountain of all goodness, and therefore the people of God could not be hereof ignorant: but they are said not to know that God gave them these gifts, because they did not know and acknowledge him alone to be the author of them, but joined Idols and petty gods with him, and so robbed ⟨p. 210⟩him of part of his praise, they did not know that they had received these gifts of Gods free grace and mere goodness, but for their golden Calves and other Idols, and for that new devised worship which they offered unto God in them, which they thought was more acceptable unto him then the service prescribed in his word. So Jere. 44. 17. 18. the Jews said 2they would worship the Queen of Heaven, that is, the Sun, because hereby they had plenty; not that they were so brutish as to think, that they had these benefits from the Sun only, but because they ascribed this power and virtue unto the Sun in it self, rather then unto Gods blessing and providence, and so offered sacrifices and divine worship unto the Sun, as being a joint cause with God of these benefits, whereas it is only his instrument which doth nothing of it self, but by his appointment.
The first branch of their sinne was, they did not know that 1God gaue vnto them their gifts which they had receiued: whereby wee are not to imagine that the Israelites were so blinde and ignorant, as to thinke that they had all these benefits from their Idols only, and not from Iehouah, the God of Israel; for many of the Heathens though they worshipped Idols and pettie gods, yet by the light of nature knew that there was a chiefe and superiour power who was the originall fountaine of all goodnesse, and therefore the people of God could not be hereof ignorant: but they are said not to know that God gaue them these gifts, because they did not know and acknowledge him alone to be the author of them, but ioyned Idols and pettie gods with him, and so robbed