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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 these are the doctrines to be observed out of the 16. 1verse. Out of the 17. verse we may further observe, who it is that purgeth the Church from all idolatry and superstition, and restoreth Gods true and sincere worship and service, namely, the Lord himself, I will take away; So that it is not in the will and purpose, nor in the power and policy of man, to work this great alteration and reformation first and principally; for man in his own nature is prone to idolatry and superstition, and when he is once entered into it, in stead of returning out of this puddle, he is ready, being over the shoes, to plunge himself over head and ears; but it is the Lord himself, who illuminateth our eyes with the knowledge of his truth, and enableth us to discern the sottishness of superstition, ⟨p. 273⟩and the filthiness of our spiritual whoredoms, and moveth our harts to loath and detest them, & to embrace his true religion and sincere worship. And therefore, when as we would have the house of God clearly purged from all relics of superstition, we must not only every man in his place and calling, further as much as in us lieth this good work, but principally we are all in general to join together in prayer unto God, desiring his assistance for the effecting of it, for he is the chief cause thereof, and the greatest Potentates of the earth are in this work but his instruments and deputies, whom he can easily incline to effect it, when so it pleaseth him: Prou. 21. 1.2
And these are the doctrines to be obserued out of the 16. 1verse. Out of the 17. verse wee may further obserue, who it is that purgeth the Church from all idolatrie and superstition, and restoreth Gods true and sincere worshippe and seruice, namely, the Lord himselfe, I will take away; So that it is not in the will and purpose, nor in the power and policie of man, to worke this great alteration and reformation first and principally; for man in his owne nature is prone to idolatrie and superstition, and when he is once entred into it, in stead of returning out of this puddle, he is readie, being ouer ye shooes, to plunge himselfe ouer head and eares; but it is the Lord himselfe, who illuminateth our eyes with the knowledge of his truth, and inableth vs to discerne the sottishnes of superstition,