A69234:688
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 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 2her sins and corruptions with his blood, and that first in her justification, whereby her sins are pardoned, and hid out of Gods sight, with the rich robe of Christs righteousness: and secondly by sanctification, whereby she is freed from the power, dominion, and corruption of sin it self, and made pure and holy; the which work is begun in this life, and finished in the life to come.
And as in our ordinarie mariages speciall regard is to bee had, that we be not vnequally yoked, the godly with the wicked, the beleeuer with the infidell, as the Apostle chargeth vs, 2. Cor. 6. 14. So in this spirituall mariage, Christ the husband, most iust & holie, hath had a speciall care not to chuse, 1but to make his spouse, being chosen, glorious, and without any spot or wrinkle, holie and vnblameable, by washing away 2her sinnes and corruptions with his blood, and that first in her iustification, whereby her sinnes are pardoned, and hid out of Gods sight, with the rich robe of Christs righteousnesse: and secondly by sanctification, whereby she is freed from the power, dominion, and corruption of sinne it selfe, and made pure and holy; the which worke is begun in this life, and finished in the life to come.