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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.
Thirdly, whereas he calleth this summons to Judgement, 1the word of the Lord, which notwithstanding was pronounced not by the Lord immediately, but by the Prophet: hence we learn that the voice of Gods messengers in the Ministry of the word, is to be esteemed as the voice not of mortal men, but as the voice of the everliving God, 2speaking by them. So it is said, Heb. 1. 1. that in old time God spake by his Prophets. And our Saviour Christ saith that they ⟨p. 60⟩who hear his Disciples and Ministers, do hear him; and they who contemn them, contemn him. Luke. 10. 16. And 3thus have the faithful always esteemed the Ministry of the word, even as the voice of God himself. So the Church Isaiah. 2. 3. Cornelius. Acts. 10. 33. The Thessalonians. 1. Thes. 42. 13. And so are we also to esteem of it, if ever we mean to find it to be the strong power of God to salvation unto us. When therefore in the ministry of the word, we hear sweet consolations offered to all that mourn, we mourning are to be comforted hereby, even as if the Lord himself from heaven should speak comfortably unto us: when we hear Gods Judgements denounced against all unrepentant sinners, we living in our impenitency, should no less be terrified hereby, then if the Lord even with his own thundering voice should proclaim them against us, &c.
Thirdly, whereas hee calleth this summons to Iudgement,