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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, as in marriages there ought to be only two joined together, one man with one woman, according to that Matth. 19. 5. And they two shall be one flesh: so in this spiritual 1marriage there are but two, one husband, Christ, and one spouse, the Church: for although the faithful are many in number, yet they make but one entire body, seeing they are conjoined and quickened by the same Spirit, as divers members make but one body, being quickened by the same soul.
Secondly, as in mariages there ought to be only two ioyned together, one man with one woman, according to that Matth. 19. 5. And they two shall be one flesh: so in this spirituall 1marriage there are but two, one husband, Christ, and one spouse, the Church: for although the faithfull are many in number, yet they make but one intire bodie, seeing they are conioyned and quickned by the same Spirit, as diuers members make but one bodie, being quickened by the same soule.
And as in our ordinary marriages special regard is to be had, that we be not unequally yoked, the godly with the wicked, the believer with the infidel, as the Apostle chargeth us, 2. Cor. 6. 14. So in this spiritual marriage, Christ the husband, most just & holy, hath had a special care not to choose, 1but to make his spouse, being chosen, glorious, and without any spot or wrinkle, holy and unblameable, by washing away