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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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1 It is a heard and heavy message, that the children of GOD must suffer so great misery & cruelty, & to bear it also: a great grief it is, that our enemies should look on our affliction, and rejoice; greater to enter into our gates and take away our goods; greatest of all to take away our life: yet is it more then this, to kill us after we have escaped; especially to suffer all this of our brethren. Yet is there no remedy, the godly in all this must be patient and suffer all these things, and that not only of strangers, but also of our brethren.
1 It is a heard and heavy message, that the children of GOD must suffer so great misery & cruelty, & to beare it also: a great griefe it is, that our enemies should looke on our affliction, and reioice; greater to enter into our gates and take away our goods; greatest of all to take away our life: yet is it more then this, to kill vs after wee haue escaped; especially to suffer all this of our brethren. Yet is there no remedy, the godly in all this must be patient and suffer all these things, and that not onely of strangers, but also of our brethren.
The gate that leadeth to life is narrow and strait. We are to sit down and cast accounts, for we are to build a costly work. We are borne as the sons of Jacob under the bondage of Pharaoh, so under the thraldom of Satan that spiritual Pharaoh. Christ is our Moses by whom through Baptism, as through the red sea, we are led to the land of promise: but before we come thither, we are to pass through the wilderness where is want of meat and drink, and other necessaries, besides wild beasts & noisome serpents, &c: Yet this must we pass through, before we can come to Canaan, that is heaven. Which floweth, not as did that with milk and honey, but ⟨p. 93⟩with such joy and comfort, as tongue cannot utter, neither have at any time entered into the hart of man.
The gate that leadeth to life is narrow and straite. Wee are to sit downe and cast accompts, for we are to build a costly worke. We are borne as the sonnes of Iacob vnder the bondage of Pharaoh, so vnder the thraldome of Sathan that spirituall Pharaoh. Christ is our Moses by whō through Baptisme, as through the red sea, we are led to the land of promise: but before we come thither, wee are to passe through the wildernesse where is want of meate and drinke, and other necessaries, besides wild beasts & noysome serpents, &c: Yet this must we passe through, before we can come to Canaan, that is heavē. Which floweth, not as did that with milke and hony, but