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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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Now as S. Paul would have us to do good to all men, 1but especially to them, that are of the household of faith; so are we with this bond of Religion, tied so much the faster, as grace is superior to nature. Wherefore we are to remember the exhortation of the Apostle hereupon, ⟨p. 84⟩that no man oppress his brother, for the Lord is a revenger 2of such things. What then shall become of them who neglecting the bonds of nature and grace, deal with their brethren no otherwise, then did the Idumeans with the Israelites, carrying away the substance, rejoicing at their harms, standing on the other side? What shall we say of them who deal with their brother Naboth, as Ahab and Jezebel did? Whose hands be full of 3blood, and their houses stuffed with bribes, which grind the faces of the poor, pull the skin from their flesh, break 4their bones in pieces, and chop them as meat for the pot, of such as eat & devour up their brethren with usury, which consume them by law and suit, which spoil them by monopolies, by engrossing, by false wares, subtle bargains, by enclosing of commons, enhancing of rents, by robbing the Church, in pulling away the maintenance of the Ministers, possessing their right, by impropriations, by impoverishing Colleges, by thrusting labourers and husbandmen out of their house & ground, and placing there a shepherd with his dog, by joining house to house, land to land, living to living, as 5though they meant alone to live upon the earth; and shall not the dogs once lick these mens blood, & the fowls of the air feed on their carcasses, or shall not hell open her mouth wide, to swallow down their glory, riches, and themselves also? shall not the Lord say in that last day to all these depart from me ye wicked to dwell with the devil and his Angels. Nay shall it not be more dreadful for them then this, if any thing may be? For he cannot say to these men, depart from ⟨p. 85⟩