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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 which concern all men in general. More specially, the Ministers of Gods word may here 1learn to deliver nothing to the people but the pure word, and what is grounded on it, and warranted thereby; so as they may say with the Prophets, The word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, &c. And with the Apostle Paul, 1. Cor. 11. 23. I have received from the Lord that which I also have delivered 2unto you. And this the Apostle Peter requireth, 1. Pet. 4. 11. If any man speak, let him speak as the words of God. They must 3not therefore deliver unto the people in stead of Gods word their own inventions, their own frothy conceits of wit, which only delight and tickle the ear, but neither inform the judgement, nor reform the affections, like pleasing music or witty poetry, which are more fit for the stage then for the pulpit: they must not when they deliver Gods embassy come with excellency of words, or in the enticing speech of mans wisdom, which Paul disapproveth in his own 4practise, but in the plain evidence of the spirit & of power; which grave manner of speaking best becometh the ambassadors of Jesus Christ. Neither must they (unless it be sparingly and for special purposes) cite the authorities of men, of the Fathers, Doctors, Councils, much less of Poets and Philosophers, labouring to beautify the pure golden verity of Gods word, by painting it over with the duskish colours of humane learning: whereby they make no difference between the Prophets and Apostles and other writers, between the authority of mans word, and the word of the eternal God.
And these are the doctrines which concerne all men in generall. More specially, the Ministers of Gods word may here 1learne to deliuer nothing to the people but the pure word, and what is grounded on it, and warranted thereby; so as they may say with the Prophets, The word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, &c. And with the Apostle Paul,