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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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in ⟨p. 38⟩like sort mens souls are fainting still also, to their hazard 1of life eternal, unless they be refreshed with the food of Gods word. Wherefore that his servants and maidens be not furnished: the master of the household hath made you his stewards to minister meat unto them. If you behave your selves, as wise stewards, and faithful; wise, in discerning what portion of meat they need each, and when; faithful in giving it to them in due season: your master shall come, who now is absent as it were and gone into a far country, but he shall come again and fill you with blessedness; he shall make you rulers 2over all his goods, and honour you as highly as Pharaoh did Joseph; yea, he shall reward you with a crown 3of glory, an incorruptible crown, and ye shall shine as stars for ever and ever. But if ye think his coming to be far of, and so begin to smite the servants and the maidens; nay, I would to God ye did smite them only so that ye taught them too, for that were a benefit; but if ye famish them, and play the good fellows your selves with the world, and eat and drink, and be drunken: your master will come in a day when ye look not for him and in an hour, that ye are not ware of, and will cut you in pieces, and give you your portion with the unbelievers. By the Roman laws of the 12. tables, if a man 4owed money unto sundry creditors, and after judgement 5given, did not agree with them himself, or o theirs for him: his creditors might (after certain days respite) cut his body in pieces, and take them each a part thereof Phavorinus the Philosopher reproved this law 6as cruel and barbarous. But Caecilius the Lawyer replied ⟨p. 39⟩well upon him, that so great a punishment was appointed of purpose, that they might never come unto it. For now we see many (said he) laid up fast, and fast into fetters because the pain of fetters is contemned by lewd persons. But I never read nor heard, that of old time any was cut in pieces: because they could not set light by that punishment. Metius […], the Prince of the Albans, having promised the Roman king Tullus Hostilius to succour him against his enemies, did treacherously deceive him: by whom he was therefore tied to two carts, his hands to the one, his feet to the other, and so (the horses being driven contrary ways) he was torn in pieces.