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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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It is written of Xerxes, that when he beheld from the 1top of a high mountain his great and mighty host, how he wept in recordation of their mortality, for that of a huge number, within the compass of a few years, there should not be one left alive. We may behold in spirit a great army, of Christian soldiers, throughout all Christendom, whom when you remember, you do I hope, my self know that I rejoice, to remember, that within these few years, they shall all be delivered from Babylon, that is, from all adversity and misery of this present life, & be brought to that heavenly Jerusalem where we shall rest in all joy and safety.
It is written of Xerxes, that when he beheld frō the 1top of a high mountaine his great and mightie host, how he wept in recordation of their mortality, for that of a huge number, within the cōpasse of a few yeares, there should not be one left aliue. We may behold in spirit a great army, of Christian souldiers, throughout all Christendome, whom when you remember, you do I hope, my selfe know that I reioice, to remēber, that within these few yeares, they shall all be delivered frō Babylon, that is, from all adversity and misery of this present life, & be brought to that heavenly Ierusalem where we shall rest in all ioic and safety.
- 1Herodot. lib. 8.
It is when you shall have drunk. The godly then as we have said must needs drink, and that more is, they must drink before the heathen. For Judgement must be gin at the house of God, as Peter teacheth; after that the Lord hath punished his people, then will he visit the proud heart of the king of Babel. When Jerusalem must be destroyed, it must begin at the Sanctuary. See 1how the Apostles in the Acts are first persecuted and afflicted, when as yet the bitter potion was not given to the Jews, namely the sacking of Jerusalem and destruction