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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.
Now the Lords end in all this was, that he might wean the elect Israelites from their vain hopes, by withdrawing from them all those things wherein they trusted, that so having no other hope of being delivered out of their misery, they might turn to the Lord by true repentance, and so expect from him alone freedom from their afflictions. For as long as they had any Kings and government, or any form of a common wealth, whilst they had any show of Religion, or any outward means of worshipping God, though they were never so much depraved and corrupted, they rested, nay they boasted in it, as though they were in good estate: and therefore to beat them from this vain conceit, the Lord threateneth to bring upon them a confused anarchy, & to deprive them of all show & outward appearance of a Church, that so being humbled in the sight and sense hereof, they might be moved laying aside all other hopes, to expect salvation in Jesus Christ, and be the better fitted to receive him when he was exhibited, as their only King, Priest, Prophet, and Redeemer.
Now the Lords end in all this was, that he might weane the elect Israelites from their vaine hopes, by withdrawing from them all those things wherein they trusted, that so hauing no other hope of being deliuered out of their miserie, they might turne to the Lord by true repentance, and so expect from him alone freedome from their afflictions. For as long as they had any Kings and gouernment, or any forme of a common wealth, whilest they had any shew of Religion, or any outward meanes of worshipping God, though they were neuer so much depraued and corrupted, they rested, nay they boasted in it, as though they were in good estate: and therefore to beate them from this vaine conceipt, the Lord threatneth to bring vpon them a confused anarchie, & to depriue them of all shew & outward appearance of a Church, that so being humbled in the sight and sense hereof, they might be moued laying aside all other hopes, to expect saluation in Iesus Christ, and be the better fitted to receiue him when he was exhibited, as their onely King, Priest, Prophet, and Redeemer.
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