A69234:685
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.
First, as unto every lawful marriage, there is required that the parties married be of the same kind and nature, so it is in this spiritual marriage; for the Son of God the second person in Trinity took upon him our nature and was made flesh, that so he might be a fit husband of the Church; and the Church is regenerate and purged from her sins and corruptions 1of nature, that so being made like Christ in holiness and unblameableness, she might become a fit spouse for Christ: as the Apostle speaketh, Ephes. 5. 25. 26. 27. So that if 2we speak properly, neither God the Father, nor God the holy Ghost is the husband of the Church, but God the Son, who alone took upon him our nature, and became like unto us: and therefore both this and all the like places of Scripture, which speak of the marriage between the Lord and the ⟨p. 287⟩Church, are to be understood properly of God the Sonne.
First, as vnto euery lawfull mariage, there is required that the parties married be of the same kinde and nature, so it is in this spirituall mariage; for the Sonne of God the second person in Trinitie tooke vpon him our nature and was made flesh, that so he might be a fit husband of the Church; and the Church is regenerate and purged from her sinnes and corruptions 1of nature, that so being made like Christ in holines and vnblame ablenesse, she might become a fit spouse for Christ: as the Apostle speaketh, Ephes. 5. 25. 26. 27. So that if 2we speake properly, neither God the Father, nor God the holie Ghost is the husband of the Church, but God the Sonne, who alone tooke vpon him our nature, and became like vnto vs: and therfore both this and all the like places of Scripture, which speake of the mariage between the Lord and the ⟨p. 287⟩