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…

First (in Queen Mary's time) the house of Saul, I mean ⟨p. 13⟩the brood of them who ^fprefer will-worships before obedience to God, fearing, as ^gSaul did, that their seeds succession should not be established as long as David lived, desired & devised to bring that to pass which ^hone of them sithence made moan it was not done, the boughs were cut of, the root was not hewed up. But the axe, which he wished to the pleasant root, fell on the root of bitterness his own hairy scalp: the devises of the wicked were disappointed by the Lord, and their desires frustrated. Afterward the usurper, the Ish-bosheth of Rome, indeed an ^*Ish-bosheth, when She was anointed and settled in her throne, sought to dispossess her by his accursed curse & Antichristian sentence declared and published in his Bull. Morton sent from him, to stir up wicked spirits to the executing of it. The Earls of Northumberland and West-merland in arms, with thousands of rebels. When they were fled and scattered: their outrage renewed by Dacres and his legion. The Bull it self proclaimed, as it were, by Melton, to gather more conspirators to it. All in vain still. For the hand of the Lord was over his handmaid, and made his word good, that ⁱthe undeserved curse came not upon her: […] ^kcame to them who loved it, & they were clothed with it as with a garment. Now what should I say of the traitors in Ireland? of Stukeley the rakehell ^mthe Popes Irish Marquess, sent thither to subdue it, slain in Barbary by the way; of Sanders the Priest, the firebrand of sedition, dead there agreeably to his life; of the arch rebels, the Earle of Desmond, and his brother, served both like ⁿ