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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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So Davids stone refused. Jonah in the belly of the whale, & his torments, Christs death and resurrection. And even so these things here handled are by the Apostles expounded of Israel and Judah according to the faith. That place of Isaiah 9. Zebulun and Naphtali, Mat. 4. when the light of the truth shone amongst them. That which is in the last of Amos, James, 5. Acts, 9. applied not only to Israel, according to the flesh, but according to the spirit also. In the place where it was said ye are my people, fulfil led in Christians, when they are called the sons of GOD. As James, Paul, Matthew expounded those, so we these. Namely that both the Jews & Gentiles chosen to be the people of GOD, shall repossess that, which was signified by the land of Canaan, of which we were deprived by our own sins. Which opinion is diligently to be marked against the frantic dreams of Jewish Rabbins, who dreaming their men that now live, to be they who should be thus set in possession, do not expound that which here is said of such as were led captive, of them that Salmanasar and Nebuchadnezzar, 1led away, but of those that Titus in the destruction of Jerusalem made captives. And because they saw themselves since dispersed through diverse parts of the Empire, by Canaan they say is here understood ⟨p. 132⟩Germany, by Zarephath, •rance, and by Sepharad Spain. And so when it is said they should possess the South side, and the plain, they say is meant, that they shall not have the hills which are not for tilling, but the plain and bottoms of the hills.
So Davids stone refused. Ionah in the belly of the whale, & his torments, Christs death and resurrection. And even so these things here handled are by the Apostles expounded of Israel and Iudah according to the faith. That place of Isaiah 9. Zabulon and Nepthalie,