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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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pThe Captains of the Romans having conquered their enemies, took part of the laurel (which they did bear in sign thereof) & laid it in the lap of Jupiter. The Chaldean king subdued divers nations, took their holds, spoiled their cities, seized on their wealth, qascribing that his power & force to his God. But rthey did not glorify God as they ought, neither were thankful. They robbed him of his honour and gave it unto smany Gods, ttheir own Idols, & uImages of mortal creatures. Yea part of the laurel they kept to themselves: xsacrificing to their nets, & burning incense to their yarn, because by them their portion was fat & their meat plenteous. The time of this ignorance is overpast, brethren, & the days are come whereof it was yprophesied, that the earth should be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as waters cover the sea. How much the more excuselesse shall our foul ingratitude & ungodliness be: if we be no thankfuller to him then the Heathens, then the Greeks, the Romans, the Chaldeans were. Chiefly sith beside the temporal benefit of the preservation of our Prince and us, we have received graces more excellent & precious to endure for ever: namely, the enjoying of his Son Christ Jesus, zour wisdom, our righteousness, our sanctification, our redemption; the Spirit of adoption, awhereby we have boldness to cry Abba father; the peace of conscience, tranquillity of mind, contentedness of heart; the inheritance immortal, undefiled, & that withereth not; the comfort, the protection, the assurance of his love: in a word so many blessings both of this life, & of the life to come, as never any nation under heaven greater. Wherefore I beseech you by the mercies of God, who spared not his own Son