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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.
Secondly, we may observe, that there cannot too great 1preciseness, care and diligence be used, in purging the Church from all relics of idolatry and superstition, and in restoring the purity of religion and Gods true worship, according to the prescript rule of his Word; as appeareth in this place, where the Lord refuseth to be called by the name of Baal, though good in it own signification, because it had been abused to idolatry, and enjoineth his people not so much as to mention the name of an idol. The like places are those before quoted, Exod. 23. 13. Deut. 12. 2. 3. Psal. 16. 4. 5. to which we may add Zach. 13. 2. I will cut off the names 2of the Idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and Isaiah 30. 22. Ye shall pollute the covering of the images of 3silver, and the rich ornament of the images of gold, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and you shall say unto it, get thee hence.
Secondly, we may obserue, that there cannot too great 1precisenesse, care and diligence bee vsed, in purging the Church from all reliques of idolatrie and superstition, and in restoring the puritie of religion and Gods true worship, according to the prescript rule of his Word; as appeareth in this place, where the Lord refuseth to be called by the name of Baal, though good in it owne signification, because it had been abused to idolatrie, and enioyneth his people not so much as to mention the name of an idoll. The like places are those before quoted, Exod. 23. 13. Deut. 12. 2. 3