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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 so much concerning the fourth benefit. The fifth followeth, which is that near and inseparable union that is between Jesus Christ and his Church, expressed in these words: Vers. 19. And I will marry thee unto me for ever, yea and I will marry thee unto me, in righteousness, and in Vers. 19. 20. judgement, and in mercy, and in compassion. 20. I will even marry thee unto me in faith, and thou shalt know the Lord. Where the Prophet proceeding in his former allegory, compareth 1the union which is between Christ and his Church unto marriage, because no other similitude doth more lively and fully express it, whereof it is that this spiritual and mystical union is usually in the Scriptures represented unto us, under this type of marriage, wherein Christ Jesus is the husband and his Church the spouse. So Psal. 45. the union of Christ and his Church is shadowed under the type of Solomons marriage ⟨p. 286⟩with Pharaohs daughter, the whole book of Canticles containeth nothing else but the doctrine of this spiritual marriage. The Prophet Isaiah speaketh of it, chap. 54. 5. For he that made thee is thine husband, whose name is the Lord of hosts, &c. 2v. 6. ch. 62. 5. The Prophet Ezekiel likewise, chap. 16. 8. &c. And our Saviour Christ in the new Testament calleth himself the Bridegroom of the Church, Matth. 9. 15. And chap. 322. 2. God the Father is compared to a King who married his son, that is, Jesus Christ with the Church. The Apostles also use the same similitude, to signify this union: So Paul, 2. Cor. 11. 2. I have prepared you for one husband, to present you 4as a pure virgin to Christ. And Eph. 5 23. 25. 32. And the Apostle John,