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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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In those, which are thus to be delivered there is required holiness of life. For so also it is said in the gospel, that we are delivered from our sins to serve God in holiness, &c. and it shall be well, saith the Prophet, but to whom? to the just and holy, not the wicked & profane: to such as are careful to perform their duty towards GOD and man, to such as sanctify the Lord in their soul and body. There is a book of remembrance written 1before the LORD, but it is for them that feared him, & thought upon the Lord there is life for them that seek immortality, and glory &c. Let us then assure our selves, that if we mean to attain deliverance, and the fruit thereof, the repossessing of our inheritance, we must be holy and just, ere we be delivered from the hands, &c. For although it may be, that some of them were not holy at such time as they were dispossessed, ⟨p. 124⟩yet needs must they be holy, before they can possess them again. Such were some of you saith Paul, but ye are washed; let this then be especially noted of us, that none can receive the crown, but such as fight. The possessions 2are the kingdom of heaven, w•ich we possess by inheritance. No Canaanite or polluted person can enter into the Lords inheritance, into the kingdom of heaven. And as the godly are delivered, so is there another benefit promised them, namely that for their sakes the wicked shall be consumed. For it is said, the house of Jacob shall be fire. Where first we may note; the Emphatical speech, when he saith, the house of Jacob shall be a fire, when he meaneth, that it shall be like the name of the thing, as it is usual, being put for that, which is Resembled to it. Which indeed were not worthy the noting, but for the fanatical Imagination of Transubstantiation, which they will needs prove, for that it is said, This is my body, whence they conclude, that therefore it is his body indeed. But so might we hence also gather that the house of Jacob, was fire indeed, &c. For all mystical speeches be not like to that of our Saviour, yet this is common to them, that the names of the signs are given to the thing signified, & so Christ is called 3a Vine, his Father a husbandman, his Disciples branches: