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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.
Sixthly, as between married persons, many duties are mutually 1to be performed, some whereof are commune to both, and some proper to either party; so the like duties are performed by Christ and his Church. The commune duties are principally conjugal love, faithfulness, cohabitation, communication of persons and goods; all which on Christs part are performed in the highest degree of perfection: for first, he hath sufficiently manifested his love to his Church, in that he was content to give his life for her redemption, Ephes. 5. 25. Secondly, he is so faithful in keeping his covenant with 2her, that her unfaithfulness and infidelity cannot make his promise vain, and his faith of none effect, Rom. 3. 3. 4. Thirdly, he dwelleth with her even to the end of the world, protecting 3her by his power, and guiding her by his word and Spirit, Matth. 28. 20. Joh. 14. 16. Fourthly, he communicateth ⟨p. 291⟩4his person with us, and all his goods and benefits; so that he is now become ours, and all that belongeth unto him: his merits are our merits, his satisfaction our satisfaction, his obedience our obedience, his righteousness our righteousness, his holiness our holiness, his wisdom our wisdom, his kingdom our kingdom. And so likewise these commune duties are performed by his spouse the Church, in her measure and proportion; for she loveth her husband Christ, and setteth her heart and affections upon him, so as she can be content for his sake to forsake the world, yea even her own self. She desireth to keep her marriage faith, abhorring all spiritual whoredom, and labouring to reserve her self for her husband holy and undefiled; she dwelleth with him, and rangeth not abroad into the world, but keepeth her self within her bounds and limits; she communicateth her self, and what she hath unto him, and having nothing else worth the gift, she giveth him her heart, praising and rendering unto him all possible laud and thanks for all his benefits, and offering unto him with a sincere heart his pure worship and service, by whose treasures alone she is enriched.