A69234:710
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, whereas error and blindness of judgement, is a 1cause of divorce and separation, seeing thereby the wife is moved to prefer an adulterer before her lawful husband; therefore that this may not be a cause of separation between him and his Church, the Lord promiseth that he will endue her with a clear and wise judgement, whereby she shall be able to discern between good and evil, right and wrong: and how much more profitable will it be for her to embrace the Lord, as her only husband, loving, reverencing, and obeying him in all things, than to forsake him, and to follow after her adulterous lovers, that is, idols, the world, Satan, and the pleasures of sin, which last but for a season, and in the end bring everlasting destruction; and how much better it is to embrace his pure worship revealed in his word, then to follow humane traditions and her own inventions?
Secondly, whereas error and blindnesse of iudgement, is a 1cause of diuorce and separation, seeing thereby the wife is moued to preferre an adulterer before her lawfull husband; therfore that this may not be a cause of separation betweene him and his Church, the Lord promiseth that he will endue her with a cleare and wise iudgement, whereby she shall bee able to discerne betweene good and euill, right and wrong: and how much more profitable will it be for her to embrace the Lord, as her only husband, louing, reuerencing, and obeying him in all things, than to forsake him, and to follow after her adulterous louers, that is, idols, the world, Satan, and the pleasures of sinne, which last but for a season, and in the end bring euerlasting destruction; and how much better it is to embrace his pure worship reuealed in his word, then to follow humane traditions and her owne inuentions?
- 12 The Church is married unto Christ in judgement.2 The Church is married vnto Christ in iudgement.