A69234:779
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.
Yea, but the ten Tribes were divorced from God, excluded out of the covenant and for ever debarred of mercy; how then could it be said of them, that God loved them as his spouse, and that they should, being converted, seek the Lord?
Yea, but the ten Tribes were diuorced from God, excluded out of the couenant and for euer debarred of mercy; how then could it be said of them, that God loued them as his spouse, and that they should, being conuerted, seeke the Lord?
I answer that we are not to understand these words generally of the whole people of Israel, but of those only amongest them, which belonged to Gods election, for of these alone it could truly be said that God loved them, and that being converted they should seek the lord. And understanding it of them, we may easily answer the former objections, for though they were excluded out of the covenant of works, yet this hindereth them not from being admitted into the covenant of grace; though they were debarred of mercy ⟨p. 5⟩in respect of their deliverance out of a temporal captivity, yet they obtained mercy in regard of their spiritual freedom out of the captivity of sin and Satan; though they were for ever exiled out of the earthly Canaan, yet being reconciled unto God in Christ, they might nevertheless become Citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem.
I answere that we are not to vnderstand these words generally of the whole people of Israell, but of those onely amongest them, which belonged to Gods election, for of these alone it could truely be said that God loued them, and that being conuerted they should seeke the lord. And vnderstanding it of them, we may easily answere the former obiections, for though they were excluded out of the couenant of works, yet this hindreth them not from being admitted into the couenant of grace; though they were debarred of mercy ⟨p. 5⟩in respect of their deliuerance out of a temporall captiuitie, yet they obtained mercy in regard of their spirituall freedom out of the captiuitie of sinne and Sathan; though they were for euer exiled out of the earthly Canaan, yet being reconciled vnto God in Christ, they might neuerthelesse become Citizens of the heauenly Ierusalem.