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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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And for the former, we must be so much the more diligent in avoiding it, because a good mind is sometimes subject unto it. When a young man told Joshua, that Eldad, and Modad, prophesied in the host, he 1willed Moses to forbid them. But Moses rebuked him; enviest thou, saith he, for my sake? yea would to God that all the Lords people were Prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them.
And for the former, we must be so much the more diligent in avoiding it, because a good mind is sometimes subiect vnto it. When a young man told Ioshuah, that Eldad, and Modad, prophecied in the host, hee 1willed Moses to forbid them. But Moses rebuked him; enviest thou, saith hee, for my sake? yea would to God that all the Lords people were Prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit vpon them.
But as for the latter, which is to rejoice at the adversity of others, it is not so incident to the heart, which is sprinkled with any drop of grace; because that even naturally, we pity such as be in misery. Howbeit, if there be any such among us, let him remember what the wise man saith; That he who rejoiceth at the harm of another, shall not himself escape unpunished. The ⟨p. 99⟩sum is this, that we look to our heart the fountain of these affections, and purify it. The heart, as the Philosophers say, in natural generation is first framed, and in spiritual regeneration it is first formed. Wherefore we are first to look that it be pure. For what the heart conceiveth, that the tongue uttereth, and what the tongue speaketh, the hand practiseth.