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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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THE PROPHECY OF OBADIAH.
THE PROPHECIE OF OBADIAH.
OBADIAH 1. 1 The vision of OBADIAH. Thus saith the Lord God against Edom; we have heard a rumour from the Lord & an Ambassador is sent among the heathen: arise, and let us arise up against her in battle. 2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art utterly despised.
OBADIAH 1. 1 The vision of OBADIAH. Thus saith the Lord God against Edom; we haue heard a rumor from the Lord & an Ambassadour is sent among the heathen: arise, and let vs arise vp against her in battel. 2 Behold, I haue made thee smal among the heathen: thou art vtterly despised.
Before I come to the exposition of the Prophets words, I think it convenient to show unto you the cause, why leaving the epistle of Peter, which I had in hand, I have taken upon me to handle this Prophecy. Saint Peter having testified, that the Gospel of Christ, was the truth of GOD, preached to men for the salvation of their souls, exhorteth them, that, not withstanding the fury and malice of the wicked, which had set themselves against the same, they would per sist in the doctrine and truth, which they had learned, to embrace the same faithfully, and express the force and fruit thereof effectually in their life and conversation: and that in general, to fly from evil, a•d follow that which was good, and in particular towards GOD,