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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.
But the image of Baal being abolished, why would not the Lord be called upon by the name of Baal, seeing it signifieth a god, lord, or patron, and sometime also a husband, as well as Ish? I answer, the Lord would be called Ish, rather then Baal, first, because Baal being a name of empire and dominion, brought with it some servile fear; the other name Ish signifying properly a husband, offereth nothing to our consideration but love, fidelity, grace and protection; and therefore the Lord refuseth the former name, in the time of the Gospel, as being too austere, savouring only of authority and Lordship, and will be called by the amiable name of ⟨p. 269⟩Ish, or husband, to show that he hath renewed his covenant, is reconciled to his Church, and is now become most loving and gracious unto her.
But the image of Baal being abolished, why would not the Lord be called vpon by the name of Baal, seeing it signifieth a god, lord, or patron, and sometime also a husband, as well as Ish? I answere, the Lord would be called Ish, rather then Baal, first, because Baal being a name of empire and dominion, brought with it some seruile feare; the other name Ish signifying properly a husband, offereth nothing to our consideration but loue, fidelitie, grace and protection; and therefore the Lord refuseth the former name, in the time of the Gospell, as being too austere, sauouring only of authoritie and Lordship, and will be called by the amiable name of ⟨p. 269⟩Ish, or husband, to shew that he hath renewed his couenant, is reconciled to his Church, and is now become most louing and gratious vnto her.
The second cause, which I take to be the more principal, is, that he might hereby show his detestation of idolatry, in that he would not endure to be called by the name of an idol, though otherwise good in it own signification. And this his detestation he further showeth, when as he saith, that they should be so far from worshipping idols, or him in them, that they should not so much as name them: Vers. 17. For I will take away the names of Baali out of her mouth, &c.