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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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Christ is a prince, which indeed is gone into a far country, yet he looketh, that his talents, which he hath left behind him, be employed till he come. And he is not gone so far, but that he will come on the sudden again, & happy is that servant whom, when he cometh, he shall find doing his duty.
Christ is a prince, which indeed is gone into a farre countrey, yet he looketh, that his talents, which he hath left behind him, be imployed till he come. And hee is not gon so farre, but that he will come on the sodaine againe, & happy is that servant whom, when he commeth, he shall find doing his dutie.
3 The Equity, which the Lord will use in this judgement, is declared, when it is said, as thou hast done, it shall be done to thee: thy reward shall return upon thy head. •eason plainly showeth, that the punishment should •e equal to the faults, as the ancient laws of the Romans, which they received from the Grecians, have plainly declared: but more evidently in the laws of the Hebrews, wherein we must needs think, that equity appeared most clear. The law commanded a tooth for a 1rooth, &c. as he hath done, so let it be done to him. Adonibesek ⟨p. 113⟩acknowledged this for a just judgement even by the light of nature, when he confessed, when the thumbs of his feet and hands were cut of, that GOD had rewarded him, for that he had caused 70. kings having their thumbs cut of to gather scraps under his table. Absalom killed Amnon his brother and was not 2he himself slain? Joab slew Abner and Amasa, but he himself was slain, whilst he laid hold on the horns of the Altar. But what speak I of several men, seeing this equity of Gods judgement shineth most clear