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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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VERSE 7. 7 All thy confederates have driven thee to the borders: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, & prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is no understanding in him.
VERSE 7. 7 All thy confederates haue driven thee to the borders: the men that were at peace with thee haue deceived thee, & prevailed against thee; they that eate thy bread haue laid a wound vnder thee: there is no vnderstanding in him.
THE Prophet hitherto set down first the certainty of the destruction of the Idumeans, and then laid before them the grievousness of the same: cometh now to this point, which ensueth, which implieth both the former: show ing that all their confederates and friends, such as were nearest unto them should join together utterly to destroy them. Which circumstance as it argueth, that they should certainly come to ruin, and that no hope remained, that they should be delivered from it seeing such as they hoped, should help them from it, should be prepared to bring them to it▪ so doth it amplify the bitterness of it. David con plaineth grievously that his familiar friend, who went with him into the house of God, whom he trusted, and ⟨p. 53⟩1who did eat of his bread, that such a one […] […] his heel against him. If an enemy ha• do• […] that […] shonor, he saith he could have borne it. Caesar contained