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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 That the godly are afflicted in this life for a while in measure. 2 That the punishment of the wicked is without measure or end.
But before I enter into the declaration hereof, I will note the harm which proceedeth of excessive drinking, which the Prophet setteth here before our eyes, when he calleth afflictions and punishments, by ⟨p. 115⟩the name of drinking: for thereby are we taught that as men oppressed with grief have their hearts troubled, their bodies distempered, their spirits languishing their life shortened, &c. so the excess of drinking weakeneth also the body, endangereth the soul, draweth on many diseases, &c. Yea many go so far, that they even quaff up their death with it. As it is reported, that Alexander proposing a reward to him that could drink most, there were 21 presently killed thereby, & 1he which got the victory died within three days after. And although I have less cause to fear this vice in Christian men, much less in Englishmen, least of all in Oxford, yet the great plenty of wine sellers lately increased, causeth me to dread, lest by degrees we come unto it. Wherefore let us consider in this Metaphor of drinking and swallowing up, that not only the great afflictions of this present life are signified, but also the dreadful and endless torments of the life to come. Which yet is not so meant, as though the very drinking were condemned. For wine was created of GOD to cheer the heart of man, not of the evil man alone, but of the good likewise, as GOD hath made his sun to shine not only on the good but on the bad also. And although in the law, the high Priest were forbid to drink wine, when he entered into the tabernacle of the congregation, that he might put a difference between the holy and the unholy, the clean and the unclean, &c. yet in the 2New testament, where the ceremonies being abolished, the things only remain, hereby sobriety and temperance is commanded us. Wherefore Paul counselled ⟨p. 116⟩