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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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Let us learn therefore to be wise in performing the duty we owe to all men according to the degrees by God prescribed; considering the Prophet here showeth, that the Idumeans should have been more courteous & gentle to Jews, because they were brethren. Si fratrem Pollux alternà morte redemit1 Itque reditque viam toties— GOD forbid we should show such deadly hatred as was between Eteocles, and Polynices! From this affinity which is of them, which come of the same parents, 2we are to rise to them of one city, nation, &c: and so to them also of one league and one accord. Hiram & ⟨p. 83⟩David though not brethren by the flesh, yet in amity & league, so that Solomon the successor so also calleth him. If I require the same of us towards the French & Scots, 3and other our confederates, it is no more, then the Tyrian Prince received at the hands of David and Solomon. Now how much more if an Englishman do an injury to an Englishman, may he that standeth by say, why strive you together, seeing you be brethren? I come nearer to them, that are of one corporation, yea of one Society having as it were one father, joined in one fellowship of study and learning, wherein Cicero requireth a likelihood of manners and affection. But the nearest band of all is Religion, where of they be all brethren by one father of heaven, borne of one mother the church, fed with one 4bread of life, preserved by one hope, justified by one faith, sanctified by one spirit, serving one God, the only Lord of all, &c. For, though the Papists speak scornfully of this name, that the faithful call one another brethren, they being desirous to defend that peevish and superstitious distinction of such as call themselves Friars or brethren, yet in the Acts of the Apostles we know, that the name is common to all Christians, and not proper, as they would have it, to any one sect, no more than the name of Jesuits, which some of them would appropriate to themselves.
Let vs learne therefore to be wise in performing the duty we owe to all men according to the degrees by God prescribed; considering the Prophet here sheweth, that the Idumeans shoulde haue beene more curteous & gentle to Iewes, because they were brethren. Si fratrem Pollux alternà morte redemit