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The prophecy of Obadiah opened and applied in sundry learned and gracious sermons preached…The prophecie of Obadiah opened and applyed in sundry learned and gracious sermons preached…
The prophecy of Obadiah opened and applied in sundry learned and gracious sermons preached at All-Hallows and St Mary's in Oxford by that famous and judicious divine John Rainolds D. of Divinity and late president of Corp. Chr. Coll. Published for the honour and use of that famous University, and for the benefit of the churches of Christ abroad in the country, by W.H.The prophecie of Obadiah opened and applyed in sundry learned and gracious sermons preached at All-Hallowes and St Maries in Oxford by that famous and iudicious divine Iohn Rainolds D. of Divinity and late president of Corp. Chr. Coll. Published for the honour and vse of that famous Vniversity, and for the benefit of the churches of Christ abroad in the country, by W.H.
Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1613
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Moreover, as we hereby do learn patience, that we fret not at the prosperity of the wicked; so are we also to be wise, that we offend not after the manner of the ungodly, through hope of escaping the judgement 1of GOD, having before our eyes the day, which the Prophet here speaketh of, and much more, that whereof this is a sign and figure, remembering, that the slower our punishment is in coming, the heavier will it be when it cometh. When Amnon had defiled himself, & his Sister Tamar following his filthy lust, he straight was so displeased with her, that he could 2not so much as abide her sight, which is the first plague that GOD layeth on such lust. There followed after another, when he was put to the sword: but the third most heavy, and grievous was behind, which was to 3be cast with whoremongers into the lake that burneth. ⟨p. 69⟩How little joy had Absalom after he began to rebel against his Father! for within few days the senseless creatures, practised the like disobedience against him. 4that he did against his Father, so that they, which were made to have served his benefit, wrought his destruction. The rich mans soul which was set at ease for many 5years, as he thought, how suddenly heard he his judgement, that in that night it should be taken from him! The heathen and enemies of Christ promised themselves great good by Julian, hoping that he should live to root out all Christianity: in so much that *Libanius the Sophist meeting with a Christian Schoolmaster, asked of him in disdain what the Carpenters son (for so in contempt they termed our Saviour) was then doing, to whom the Schoolmaster made answer that the Carpenters son was making a coffin for his master Julian. And so it pleased GOD, that Julian in his war against the Persian king was *