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A81499 The dammee cavalliers vvarning piece, in a view on the prophecy of the prophet Obadiah against the Idumean armies, that so cruelly insult over the Church and people of God. 1643 (1643) Wing D155; Thomason 669.f.6[104]; ESTC R212586 8,287 7

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THE DAMMEE CAVALLIERS Warning Piece In a view on the Prophecy of the Prophet OBADIAH Against the Idumean Armies that so cruelly insult over the Church and People of God August Civita Dei lib. 2. cap. 21. There is not any true Justice in any Common-wealth whatsoever but in that whereof Christ is the founder and the ruler if you please to call that a Common-weal which we cannot deny is the weale of the Commonalty Amos 4.18 Your young men have I slaine with the sword and have taken away your horses and I have made the stinke of your Campes to come up unto your nostrils yet have yee not returned unto mee saith the Lord. LONDON Printed for Abraham Everet against Saint Magnus Church at London Bridge Anno Dom. MDCXLIII THE ARGVMENT THe people of Edom were mortall enemies to the Israelites although their predecessors were brethren Esau and Jacob yet were the Idumeans a continuall vexation to the Church of Israel and that not only in themselves but by stirring up other neighbouring Nations against them by which meanes the people of God were exceedingly distracted Therefore the Lord sent the Prophet Obadiah to preach that glorious conquest which God had determined to worke for his Church and the great ruine and misery which should befall Edom and all malignants in the advancing of the Kingdome of Iesus Christ Verse 1. The vision of Obadiah Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom we have heard a rumor from the Lord and an ambassador is sent among the heathen Arise yee and let us rise up against her in battel THe vision imports as much as Revelation for as oft as the Scripture makes mention of speciall visions which appeared to the Prophets wherby the Lord meant the better to confirme them when he would have some excellent thing come to light wee are to understand that God did it by Revelation in those daies when the Scripture saith that the word of the Lord was pretious the reason was because there was no manifest vision 1. Sam. 3.1 So those Revelations in Num. 12.6 are called visions The meaning then is as much as if it had been said There is nothing in this book but what the Prophet being enlightned and having his eies opened by God sawe by speciall Revelation Thus said the Lord God concerning Edom. Tind translates it Thus hath the Lord God spoken upon Edom. The Prophet delivered the word the rod and execution was to follow to make good that word for it was not a fancy of his owne imagination but the very word of the Lord against Edom. Edom is a name of Esau given upon his greedy desire or mocking his intemperance who sayd to Iacob Feed me I pray thee with that red pottage therefore his name was called Edom Gen. 25.30 But it is here taken for the inhabitants of the Country which were the posterity of Edom. The Rabbins usually by Edom understand Rome Galatinus de Arcan lib. 4. c. 28. The Thargum say also that Iulius Caesar and the succeeding Emperours were originally of Edom. ●or in Mal. We have heard a rumor from the Lord and an Ambassador is sent among the heathen The Phylistines assailed and molested the Jewes on the one side by raising warre against them on the other side they had the Ammonites and the Moabites And on the other side were the Idumeans or people of Edom. They were of the Jewes bloud in Isaac and Rebecca the remembrance wherof ought to have turned them from all hatred and ranchor but they were trecherous still plotting and working to bring the people of God to ruine Therefore the Lord sends the Prophet here to thunder a terrible message in their eares Arise yee and let us rise up against her in battel Tind hath it Vp let us arise and fight against them And the Prophet Ieremiah saith to the same effect Gather ye together and come against her to the battel Jer. 49.14 For God had sworne by himselfe that Bozra the chiefe City in Edom should be brought to ruine and desolation verse 13. a fearefull doome for all damme Cavaliers and enemies to the Church of God God chargeth his people to gather themselves together to fight against his and their enemies and to admit of no peace with them Verse 2. Behold I have made thee small among the heathen thou art greatly despised BEhold I have made thee small among the heathen Tind I will make thee small Although the wicked Idumeans rested secure in their abundance were become great yet the Prophet tells them that the time was nigh at hand wherein they should be scattered and though they were a great Army yet should there but a few remaine For what can the wicked conceive in God but an extreame security and therefore when the Majesty of God commeth before them they fall but the faithfull on the contrary receive great joy and sweetnesse in the presence of God Although the Lord should so sharply correct his people as if he meant to cast them off and suffer wicked men to domineere for a time yet notwithstanding he will shew in the end such effects that they shall find how good the Lord is By the Heathen here is understood all people besides the Jewes all Infidells Gods people onely being taken from amongst them Isae 49.6 Thou art greatly despised some translations thou art utterly despised Tind Thou shalt bee utterly c. All the heathen even those to whom they were most endeared hee tells them were all ready to come upon them to helpe Israel under the leading of the Almighty and that at an houres warning whensoever he shall please to call them forth by whom they should be set at naught and lightly accounted of even as a base vile people not worthy of any respect or favour Verse 3. The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocke whose habitation is high that saith in his heart who shall bring me downe to the ground THe pride of thy heart hath deceived thee Tin hath lift thee up The Prophet here tells them that they were so swelled with pride that they thought that none was able to withstand them but alas they did but delude themseves for the Lord would so strengthen his people and raise such a mighty power against them as should bring them to ruine and desolation Here the Lord shewes wicked men what all their cunning devices and wicked treacheries against his people will come to in the end God will so fight for his Saints that their enemies shall be destroyed yea God will turne the hearts of those whom they have wickedly seduced ●o fight with them against the power of Jesus Christ that they shall helpe the people of God rather then the Lord will see them or their cause perish when wicked men grow most mad against the people of God and do them most wrong then is God nearest at hand to helpe Ps●l 27 2. Thou that dwellest in the clefts