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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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Great was the wickedness of the old world, when as the sons of God seeing the daughters of men; that they 1were fair, and following their lust, not their duty, took them wives of all that they liked. GOD was displeased with their sins, and gave them a long time of repentance, even an hundred and twenty years. At which time they not repenting, he brought the flood of waters over them. When the Lord had promised to Abraham the land of Canaan, he told him, that first his seed should be a sojourner in a land that was not theirs even 400. years, for that the sin of the Amorites 2was not as then full, showing plainly, that he had given them a day of repentance, which being come, if they brought not forth worthy fruit thereof, they should be mowed down. The wickedness of Ahab received such judgement as it deserved, yet even for that shadow of repentance, the plague was cast of to his posterity. In the days of Josiah, Israel was not plagued 3&c. because his heart melted at the hearing of the law of God. The rest of the threatenings of Isaiah, and Jeremiah, ⟨p. 66⟩are of like manner against the Tyrians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Moabites, &c. appointing to some certain express years, as three, other lxx. some short, but not mentioned: a short time, but a time also is threatened by John Baptist, when he said, Even now is the axe laid to the root of the tree.4
Great was the wickednesse of the old world, when as the sonnes of God seeing the daughters of men; that they 1were faire, and following their lust, not their dutie, tooke them wiues of all that they liked. GOD was displeased with their sinnes, and gaue them a long time of repē tance, even an hundred and twentie yeares. At which time they not repenting, he brought the flood of waters over them. When the Lord had promised to Abraham the land of Canaan, hee told him, that first his seed should be a soiourner in a land that was not theirs even 400. yeares, for that the sinne of the Amorites