A69234:835
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 so much concerning the Widow-hood of the Church of Israel Typically propounded: Now we are to speak of it, as it is plainly expounded. Verse 4. For the children of Israel shall remain many days without a Verse. 4 King, and without a Prince, and without an Offering, and without an Image, and without an Ephod, and without a Teraphim.
ANd so much concerning the Widdow-hood of the Church of Israell Typically propounded: Now wee are to speake of it, as it is plainely expounded. Verse 4. For the children of Israell shall remaine many dayes without a Verse. 4 King, and without a Prince, and without an Offering, and without an Image, and without an Ephod, and without a Teraphim.
Where he showeth: first, who shall remain in this estate of a mournful widow, namely, the children of Israel, by ⟨p. 30⟩which we are to understand the ten Tribes, who in the land of their Captivity, were without Priest or Magistrate; and not the people of Judah, who had both: neither yet is it to be understood of the whole body of the people, but only of the elect Israelites: for they only remained for a time, without Civill or Ecclesiastical government, and without public means of worshipping either the true God or Idols; for these they would not worship, nor communicate with the Gentiles in their Idolatries; and God they could not worship after that public manner prescribed in his word, seeing they were exiled from the Temple: until Christ came, who was their King, Priest and Prophet, which took away the difference of places, and restored unto the converted Israelites, the public means of serving God: whereas the reprobate Israelites ever remained without the true worship of God, and not only unto a certain time: and were not without Images and Idols, seeing they communicated with the heathen in their Idolatries.