A69234:703
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, the act of espousing is contained in these words: 1I will espouse thee. Whereby it appeareth, that howsoever the Prophet uttereth these words unto the idolatrous Church of Israel, yet his meaning was not, that God would make this ⟨p. 294⟩new covenant of marriage with them, but with the whole Church in the time of the Gospel, consisting of all the faithful both Jews and Gentiles: for seeing they had been of old married unto God, and were divorced and cast off for their spiritual whoredoms, it could not be fitly said of them, that the Lord would espouse or contract them to himself, seeing they only are properly said to be espoused, who never before were taken to wife, but rather he should have said of them, that he would again be reconciled to her, and receive her to grace.
Secondly, the act of espousing is cōtained in these words: 1I will espouse thee. Whereby it appeareth, that howsoeuer the Prophet vttereth these words vnto the idolatrous Church of Israel, yet his meaning was not, that God would make this ⟨p. 294⟩new couenant of mariage with them, but with the whole Church in the time of the Gospell, consisting of all the faithfull both Iewes and Gentiles: for seeing they had been of old married vnto God, and were diuorced and cast off for their spirituall whoredoms, it could not be fitly said of them, that the Lord would espouse or contract them to himselfe, seeing they only are properly said to be espoused, who neuer before were taken to wife, but rather he should haue said of them, that he would againe be reconciled to her, and receiue her to grace.
- 1The act of espousing.