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A sermon upon part of the prophecy of Obadiah touching the destruction, as of…A sermon vpon part of the prophesie of Obadiah touching the destruction, as of…
A sermon upon part of the prophecy of Obadiah touching the destruction, as of Idumæans, so of Papists; and means whereby it must be wrought: preached at Saint Mary's in Oxford by John Rainoldes, on the 28. of October last. 1584.A sermon vpon part of the prophesie of Obadiah touching the destruction, as of Idumæans, so of Papists; and meanes whereby it must be wrought: preached at Saint Maries in Oxford by Iohn Rainoldes, on the 28. of October last. 1584.
London? : Thomas Dawson, Printed. 1584
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is of an humane and honest affection, ⟨p. 32⟩that we sometimes would pleasure other men therewith, our friends, suing for them. But if Job said to Sophar & his partners sShould you speak wickedly for Gods defence? how much less ought we to do unrighteously for the favour of men? And may we not look for the plague that fell on Eli, if, as he did thonour his children above God, so we do our friends▪ Levi is commended by the holy Ghost for usaying of his father and of his mother, I look not on him; neither doth he acknowledge his brethren, nor know his children: but they observe the word of God, and keep his covenant All Christians are bound herein to be Levites, xregarding neither father, nor mother, son, nor daughter, in respect of God, when his word and covenant cometh into question. Wherefore, sith this is a special point thereof, that all the tithes be brought into the storehouse, that in his house there may be meat: we should observe and keep it, though with the disfavour of friends whatsoever. And as it behoveth us to do it our selves: so, to wish that others enjoy the blessing with us. In which case, the duty that we owe to yKings and all in authority, doth bind us to pray for the high court of ⟨p. 33⟩Parliament, that by their ordinance the Church may be repaired, and we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness & honesty. When zEliasibthe Priest (the high priest of the Jews) had made for his kinsman Tobias a great chamber, where they afore time did lay the meat offering, the incense and the vessels and the tithes & offerings, appointed for the Levites and Priests: as soon as Nehemiah (the Prince of the people) understood thereof, it grieved him sore. Therefore he cast out the household-vessels of Tobias out of the chamber: and brought thither again the vessels of the house of God, the meat offering, and the incense. And perceiving further, that the portions of the Levites were not given them, who therefore were fled each into his land: he reproved the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? and assembling them, he set them in their place again: and all the Jews brought the tithes into the store-house to be divided to them. The Pope in the iniquity of his high usurped Priest-hood over Christians, endowed his kinsmen the monks with tithes and livings, by which aforetime the Pastors were maintained.