A69234:587
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.
Fifthly, we may observe, that the worship of the true God, 1and the service of Idols will not possibly stand together: for as soon as we begin to offer incense unto Baal, we forget Jehovah; when we love Idols, we cease to love the Lord; when we depend upon them, we distrust God: and this is that our Saviour teacheth us, Matth. 6. 24. No man can serve two masters, &c. and the Apostle telleth us, that we cannot drink of 2the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils, &c. 1. Cor. 10. 21. That 3there is no concord between Christ and Belial, and no agreement between the temple of God and idols, 2. Cor. 6. 15. 16. The 4ark of God & Dagon cannot stand together, 1. Sa. 5. 2. There ⟨p. 240⟩is no halting between God and Baal: but if God be God, serve him; if Baal be god, serve him, 1. King. 18. 21. And therefore 5let us not hearken unto those who would reconcile together Christ and Antichrist, Michael the Archangel and the Dragon, the whore of Babylon and the spouse of Christ, Gods true religion and popish superstition, and so make a hotch potch of religion, like unto the religion of the Samaritans, condemned by God, 2. King. 17. 33. 41. Let us take heed that 6we do not to make peace on earth, proclaim war against heaven, and join in league with men, to fight against God and his truth; assuring our selves that light and darkness, righteousness and unrighteousness, God and Belial, may as well be reconciled together, as Christs true religion with the superstitious idolatries of the Romish Babylon.