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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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But how far are we from this care? And how 1many either preach not, neither feed not at all, or feed 2not such, to whom they are sent. Jonah was sent by the Lord to preach at Nineveh, but he prepared himself to go to Tarsus; the ship wherein Jonah sailed was trou bled, and he knew it was because of him. Wherefore 3he bade them to cast him into the sea. Tarsus was a 4famous University in Cilicia as Strabo writeth, and for some respects preferred before Athens. Jonah would 5not go to Nineveh, but would go to Tarsus. Ye see what I would say, or rather, what I would not say. Are there not many that have been sent to Nineveh, but would go to Tarsus? The ship of our common wealth hath been troubled and tossed with rebellions and conspiracies: I may say truly, that a great cause there of hath been, for that Jonah sent to Nineveh, would needs go to Tarsus. But would to God there had been in them that zeal of Jonah, to have been touched in conscience with the remorse of their sin, and confessed the same, and have desired to have been cast in ⟨p. 14⟩to the sea. Yea happy were they, if they were cast into 6the bottom of the sea never to rise up again, rather then that one of those little ones, of whom thousands are perished through them, should have miscarried. Wherefore I beseech you in the name of Christ, & by that duty and love, which you owe him, if there be any care in you, any fear of his name, that you would go to Nineveh whither you are sent; and though Tarsus be a famous University, yet seeing GOD hath sent you thither, that you would arise and go to Nineveh.
But how farre are we from this care? And how 1many either preach not, neither feed not at all, or feed