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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.
Thirdly, this promise is accomplished among the faithful themselves, which howsoever before their conversion they are one to another as cruel and hurtful as lions, tigers, bears, yet after they join themselves to Gods Church, they lay aside their malice and brutish nature, and perform all mutual duties of love & Christian amity, as appeareth Esa. 11. 6. 1But especially under the type of this outward peace, we are to understand that Evangelical and spiritual peace, which is inwardly seated in the heart and conscience, after that we are assured of our reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ, which the Angel first proclaimed, Luk. 2. 14. and our Saviour afterwards promised to all the faithful, who are truly humbled, 2and have subjected themselves to bear his yoke of holy obedience, Matth. 11. 29. of which the Apostle also speaketh, 3Rom. 5. 1. and so often wisheth to the Churches unto whom he writeth. And this peace is twofold, peace with God, and the fruit thereof peace of conscience, with which whosoever are endued, they have tranquillity and Christian security in the midst of their worldly enemies, who though they rage never so furiously against them, yet they cannot disturb this peace, much less take it from them, but in the middest of all garboils and fiery afflictions, they may joyfully triumph in this their peace with the Apostle, Rom. 8. 31. 4to the end of the chapter: If God be on our side, that mattereth it who oppose against us? &c. So that this spiritual peace may well stand with our worldly troubles and persecutions, of which our Saviour hath forewarned us, and therefore he joineth them together: Joh. 16. 33