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…

Now as the Apostle writeth, the things which were written before, were written for our learning, &c. For as ¹he saith in another place, the examples of the punishment of the Israelites, are for our use, on whom the ends ²of the world are come, that we lust not as some of them lusted, neither commit fornication, neither Idolatry, as some ⟨p. 10⟩³of them. Even so these things will serve us for example: ⁴for those are Israelites, that are of the faith of Israel, & the Edomites are all the enemies of the Church. Wherefore let us assure our selves, that as certainly as GOD threatened destruction to Edom, so surely will he pour it on all our enemies. The Papists are the Idumeans, elder brethren. as they say; though they disdain to be called our brethren, yet are they our brethren, as Edom was the Israelites. And they have dealt with us, even as the Idumeans dealt with the Israelites. When that ⁵we would have entered into the land of promise, they have withstood us with all their might, and having, as they say, the keys of knowledge would neither enter them. selves, nor suffer others that would. Again, when the ⁶Church was afflicted by the king of Babylon, they were at hand to set the work forward, and to cry, raze it, raze it, even to the foundations. Now let us remember the ⁷words of the Apostle, that God can recompense, to those ⁸that afflict us, sufficient recompense; and if we see it some way recompensed, & some measure of his judgments fulfilled upon them, let us bless his name, who revengeth the blood of his servants, & assure our selves ⁹