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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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VERSE 10. 11. 10 For thy cruelty against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut of for ever. 11 When thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away his substance, and strangers entered into his gates, & cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
VERSE 10. 11. 10 For thy cruelty against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut of for ever. 11 When thou stoodest on the other side, in the daie that the strangers caried away his substance, and strangers entred into his gates, & cast lots vpon Ierusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
OUR Saviour to kindle the minds of his Disciples with a desire to go on towards heaven and not to look back to the enticements of the world, willeth them to remember Lots wife. Whereby he teacheth us, that in the stories of 1the Scriptures, we are not only to note the event, as namely that she was turned into a pillar of salt, but the causes also, as for that she being delivered from Sodom, yet contrary to GODS commandment, looked back again to it. The which thing the Prophet setteth here before us in the destruction of the Idumeans: for having hitherto declared the event, which should fall on them, namely that they should ⟨p. 75⟩be brought down and destroyed by such means, as GOD had appointed, notwithstanding all their wisdom, and strength: he in this place showeth the cause hereof, which was their cruelty against their brethren. For thy 2cruelty against thy brother]—The nations of the Jews and Idumeans came by descent from Abraham & Isaac for which cause they are called brethren, & as the proper name of Edom, is used to signify his offspring, so are the Jews noted by the name of Jacob brother of Edom: wherefore denouncing here utter destruction to the Idumeans, for their hard dealing towards the Jews, he saith, for thy cruelty against thy brother.