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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.
And so much concerning the second punishment. The Vers. 11 third followeth. Vers. 11. And I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. Although the people of Israel worshipped 1God not according to his word, but according to their own inventions, not in spirit and truth, but after an idolatrous manner in their idols, not in the place which he had appointed, to wit, his Temple, but in Dan and Bethel; yet they exceedingly pleased themselves in their outward worship and external show of their new devised religion, as though they had done unto God that service which he required, imagining it could not go ill with them, so long as they observed some outward ceremonies of the law, notwithstanding they declined in substance from Gods true religion revealed in his word. And therefore the Lord here threateneth, that he would pluck away from them the visard of their outward profession, & stop the current of their superstitious devotions, by taking from them their corrupted ceremonial worship, wherein now they so much delighted and gloried: ⟨p. 228⟩that so they might the better see their miserable estate when as there remained unto them not so much as an outward show of religion, nor an external manner of worshipping God; and having nothing to rest upon, might at length be moved to forsake all their superstitions, and to worship the Lord according to his revealed will.
ANd so much concerning the second punishment. The Vers. 11 third followeth. Vers. 11. And I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast daies, her new moones, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemne feasts. Although the people of Israel worshipped 1God not according to his word, but according to their owne inuentions, not in spirit and truth, but after an idolatrous manner in their idols, not in the place which hee had appointed, to wit, his Temple, but in Dan and Bethel; yet they exceedingly pleased themselues in their outward worship and externall shew of their new deuised religion, as though they had done vnto God that seruice which he required, imagining it could not go ill with them, so long as they obserued some outward ceremonies of the law, notwithstāding they declined in substance frō Gods true religion reuealed in his word. And therfore the Lord here threatneth, that he would plucke away from thē the visard of their outward profession, & stop the current of their superstitious deuotions, by taking from them their corrupted ceremoniall worship, wherein now they so much delighted and gloried: