A69234:597
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.
So the Lord by his servants and Ministers doth work in the ignorant minds and stubborn hearts of those that belong to his election, a desire to come out of the thraldom of the spiritual Pharaoh, Satan; and having thus inclined and allured them by his powerful Spirit, applying unto them the benefits of Christs death and obedience, he delivereth them out of this miserable bondage: notwithstanding, he doth not presently bring them from Egypt to the heavenly Canaan, but causeth them to pass first through the wilderness of this wicked world; where, howsoever he provideth for them, and causeth their safety by his almighty protection, so that they are now in far better estate, then whilst they lived in the spiritual captivity of sin and Satan, yet they are there afflicted with many miseries, hunger, thirst, heat, cold, sickness and diseases, with inward mutinies and sedition amongst themselves, and with the outward malice and violence of the spiritual Canaanites, their worldly and wicked enemies; with which having a while exercised and humbled them, and withal wrought in their hearts an earnest desire to come into their heavenly country in the end he bringeth ⟨p. 245⟩them into the spiritual and new Jerusalem. The like allusion the Prophet Isaiah hath, speaking of this spiritual deliverance through Christ: Esa. 11. 15. 16.1
So the Lord by his seruants and Ministers doth worke in the ignorant minds and stubborne hearts of those that belong to his election, a desire to come out of the thraldome of the spirituall Pharaoh, Satan; and hauing thus inclined and allured them by his powerfull Spirit, applying vnto them the benefits of Christs death and obedience, hee deliuereth them out of this miserable bondage: notwithstanding, hee doth not presently bring them from Egypt to the heauenly Canaan, but causeth thē to passe first thorow the wildernesse of this wicked world; where, howsoeuer hee prouideth for them, and causeth their safetie by his almightie protection, so that they are now in far better estate, then whilest they liued in the spirituall captiuitie of sinne and Satan, yet they are there afflicted with many miseries, hunger, thirst, heate, cold, sicknesse and diseases, with inward mutinies and sedition amongst themselues, and with the outward malice and violence of the spirituall Cananites, their worldly and wicked enemies; with which hauing a while exercised and humbled them, and withall wrought in their hearts an earnest desire to come into their heauenly countrey in the end he bringeth