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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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Saint Peter advertising the Jews and the Proselytes, that they should receive the gift of the holy Ghost, if they 1repented, and turned to Christ: for to you (saith he) is the promise made, and to your children, & to all them that shall be long hereafter, even to as many as the Lord our God shall call: the same in like sort may I say unto you (fathers & brethren) touching this promise of bringing your enemies to utter ruin and destruction. For, God said to 2Abraham, I will bless them, that bless thee, and I will curse them, that curse thee: meaning, that he would make a perfect league with him, and be at peace with his friends, at war with his enemies. But the league and covenant, which God made with Abraham, he made with Abraham and his seed. And the seed of Abraham 3are all faithful Christians. To us all therefore is the promise made, that God will bless our friends, and will curse our enemies. Moreover, his particular curse and ⟨p. 33⟩plague ensuing it, upon the Idumeans, is a pattern of that, which shall fall on such as tread in their steps. For the punishment of the Jews, who lusted after evil 4things, is threatened to the Gentiles, if they lust as the Jews did: and if ye be partakers of the sins of Babylon, 5ye shall receive of her plagues. Now, among the enemies of the faithful Christians, others do more resemble the Philistines, or Ammonites, or Moabites, or Amalekites, or Canaanites, or Assyrians: there are none liker to the Idumeans, then are the Papists, as it hath been showed. The Idumeans borne according to the flesh of the seed of Abraham: the Papists by offspring come of Christian parents. The Idumeans circumcised as children of the covenant: the Papists baptised in the same that we be. The Idumeans served not the God of their fathers according to the law: neither do the Papists in spirit and truth after the Gospel. The Idumeans persecuted the Israelites to death, and vexed them with all cruelty: the Papists have butchered the godly with massacres, and made themselves drunken with the blood of Saints. Wherefore the spirit of the Lord assureth us, that the Papists shall be consumed in his wrath, when it shall burn suddenly: and as they have followed the facts of the Idumeans, so they shall feel their punishments. I speak not herein of all, that are Papists: as neither did the Prophet of all Idumeans.