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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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& Allen's traitorous libel making it clear in his conscience, that it was lawful and meritorious, every word therein a warrant to a mind prepared: there was but qa step between her & death, had not God bewrayed him by his Jonathan, & by the hand of justice given him that meed which his vow did merit. An intent as mischievous & more potent means had the next conspiracy, rwhich, dealt in before by Fr. Thorckemortō, was after prosecuted by others. The Popes aide (as always) ready, to gain kingdoms; the Spanish Kings assistance; the Duke of Guise with forces to invade the realm; the plots of coasts & havens for his fit arrival; the names of Recusants with hope of their furtherance; the heathens •aging, & the people murmuring, kings banding themselves, & princes taking counsel against the Lord & his anointed. Yet even in that also, were their powers & policies never so out-reaching, there showed himself above them a mightier & wiser: swho sitteth in the heavens, & laugheth them to scorn, discovering and dispersing the smoky puffs of their endeavours. Which of his accustomed goodness and bounty he hath done in this to, the last, & I beseech God it be the last, that now he hath disclosed. In the discomfiting whereof, & of the former, his out-stretched arm ⟨p. 15⟩hath appeared the more glorious, because the underminers of her Majesties state have cloaked their attempts with pretence of Religion, & salvation of souls, most subtle means & forcible to inveigle men: &, to steal away her subjects hearts from her, have reconciled them to her deadly enemy as to their sovereign Pastor: & made them sure unto him by badges & pledges of hallowed grains, of medals, of beads, of Agnus-deis, of crucifixes, of pictures, with *Fili, da mihi cor tuū, et sufficit, Son, give me thy heart, & it sufficeth, & other such spiritual sorceries. A practise more dangerous than any of Davids adversaries did use, yea than tAbsalom himself, the cunningest of them all; who had no High Priests that would take upon them to depose David; nor meritoriousness to see devils incarnate with to murder him; nor