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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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THE first sense and meaning of these words is, that the Jews, which should be carried captive to Babylon, should return again to their own land, and destroy the Idumeans. By mount Zion the fortress of Jerusalem, the beauty of Jewry, is meant all the land of Judea, and there by all the people. By these words then but upon mount Zion, &c. The Prophet meant, that the Jews should be delivered out of captivity, cleansed from their sins become holy & righteous, repossess their possessions, and by adding that the house of Jacob, should ⟨p. 122⟩be a fire, &c. and Esau stubble, that they should be kindled and burn, and be consumed till none were left alive, and that the Jews with the Israelites should destroy the I dumeans, even as the flame and fire consumeth the stubble till none be left; which the Prophet sealeth with this infallible mark, the Lord hath spoken it.
THE first sense and meaning of these words is, that the Ievves, which should be carried captiue to Babylon, should returne again to their owne land, and destroie the Idumeans. By mount Sion the fortresse of Ierusalem, the beauty of Iewrie, is meant all the land of Iudea, and there by all the people. By these wordes then but vpon mount Sion, &c. The Prophet meant, that the Iewes should be delivered out of captivitie, clensed frō their sinnes become holy & righteous, reposs•sse their possessions, and by adding that the house of Iacob, should ⟨p. 122⟩be a fire, &c. and Esau stubble, that they should bee kin•led and burne, and be consumed till none were left aliue, and that the Iewes with the Israelites should destroy the I dumeans, even as the flame and fire consumeth the stubble till none be left; which the Prophet sealeth with this infallible marke, the Lord hath spoken it.
As it hath been said before, that the temporal things in the old Testament, are figures unto us of things spiritual: so is there in these words, another further meaning then that which I have opened; namely, that the Church of GOD shall at length be delivered from bondage, and cleansed from sin, endued with holiness, and so recover that everlasting inheritance, which they were deprived of, and that they shall adjudge the wicked & ungodly all their enemies, unto eternal fire, whereby they shall all be consumed. And in this sense is that lively doctrine fully verified, which in the other is not so fully. Wherein as in a picture slenderly shadowing the lineaments, some part only is obscurely expressed. For although the Jews after their return conquered the Edomites, yet were they not consumed