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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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Wherefore seeing by the law of nature, and reason, and the bond of humanity, we are to love all men, it is manifest, that then we are to abhor, and refrain from all injuries whatsoever.
Wherefore seeing by the law of nature, and reason, and the bond of humanity, we are to loue all men, it is manifest, that then we are to abhorre, and refraine from all iniuries whatsoever.
But if neither the law of GOD, reason nor nature can move us hereunto, let us consider the punishment which is threatened, and hath light on them that have not fulfilled this law. For albeit the punishment, which is here laid down, is not threatened to each sort of men that show cruelty to another whatsoever, yet in the holy Scriptures there are some plagues denounced against every one whatsoever. The cruelty of the old world was chiefly showed upon the brood of Cain, yet 1the Lord said to Noah, that the earth was filled with cruelty, wherefore he would destroy it. The Sichemites were aliens to Israel, yea they unlawfully possessed that, which belonged to Jacob and his sons: yet because Simeon and Levi murdered them in so cruel manner, ⟨p. 78⟩Jacob curseth their wrath, because it wa• cruel, and their rage, for that it was fierce, wherefore he saith, that they 2should be divided in Jacob, and scattered in Israel: a man would have thought the zeal of Saul had been praise worthy, when he sl•w the Gibeonites, which were a remnant of the cursed Amorites, but the Lord plagued Israel for it, neither ceased the famine, till such 3time as David delivered up to be hanged, of Sauls sons, seven, as the Gibeonites demanded; which being done the plague ceased. So greatly doth the Lord detest tyranny and cruelty, though it be showed to the brood of Cain, toward uncircumcised Sichemites, or profane Gibeonites, yea on such whom he hath in his judgment appointed to destruction, though not by that means.