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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10338	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.	Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.; Rainolds, John, 1549-1607. Sermon upon part of the eighteenth Psalm. aut; Hinde, William, 1569?-1629.	1613 (1613)	STC 20619; ESTC S115589	99,467	170

sentence neither of humanitie only but of duty for who cā lay his hand on the Lords anointed saith he be giltles At least if they would not be still as he was for conscience sake yet for feare they might be seeing that a foule of the aire shal cary the voice a bird shall declare the matter if they but speak euil of the king yea in their thought much more if they intend to doe him any evil And sure if they turne not if they whet their swords bend their bowes and make them ready getting thēselues deadly weapons prepare their arrows for persecutors they haue travelled with lewdnesse and conceiued mischiefe to bring forth a lie into the pit that they haue digged they shall fall their mischiefe shall returne vpon their owne heads and on their ●…wne pates shall their crueltie light For God doth giue revengements vnto his anointed and sheweth mercy to his Queen advancing her aboue them who rise vp against her But whether they doe vse this benefit of God to their good or no let vs my deere brethren let vs our houses as Iosua said serue the Lord. And that not by acknowledging only Gods goodnesse in this and all his benefits the foremost steppe to thankfulnesse but the next also I meane by confessing of him among the Gentiles and singing to his name with yeelding him all glory for it For the Heathens thēselues in that smal knowledge of God which sin left thē did acknow ledge him to be the worker autor of the cōmodities that they had In the Greeke Poets the Gods are surnamed by a cōmō title the givers of good things The Captaines of the Romanes having conquered their enimies took part of the lawrel which they did beare in signe therof laid it in the lap of Iupiter The Caldaeā king subdued divers nations took their holds spoiled their cities seazed on their wealth ascribing that his power force to his God But they did not glorifie God as they ought neither were thankfull They robbed him of his honour and gaue it vnto many Gods their owne Idols Images of mortal creatures Yea part of the lawrel they kept to thēselues sacrificing to their nets burning incense to their yarne because by thē their portion was fat their meate plenteous The time of this ignorance is overpast brethrē the daies are come wherof it was prophecied that the earth should be ful of the knowledge of the Lord as waters cover the sea How much the more excuselesse shall our fowle ingratitude vngodlines be if we be no thankfuller to him then the Heathens thē the Greeks the Romans the Caldaeans were Chiefly sith beside the temporall benefit of the preservation of our Prince and vs wee haue received graces more excellent precious to endure for ever name ly the enioying of his Sonne Christ Iesus our wisdome our righteousnes our sanctificatiō our redēptiō the Spirit of adoption whereby we haue boldnes to cry Abba father the peace of conscience tranquillity of mind contentednes of heart the inheritāce immortal vndefiled that withereth not the cōfort the protectiō the assurāce of his loue in a word so many blessings both of this life of the life to come as never any natiō vnder heavē greater Wherfore I beseech you by the mercies of God who spared not his own Son for our sakes but gaue him to the death the vile death of the crosse that we might liue through him let vs confesse him sincerely faithfully not only in words but in deeds confesse him among the Gentiles evē those which are strāgers aliēs frō the faith that we may win thē to the Lord. Let our cōversatiō be honest amōg thē that by our good works which they shall see they may glorifie God in the day of the visitatiō Let vs cast away profane songs of wantonnes of lightnes of vanity sing vnto his name vsing both our voice speech in al respects as it becōmeth Saints To be short let vs shew let vs striue to shew by al parts of duty a thankfull acceptance of the great saluatiōs that he hath wrought for vs zealous remēbrance of the end wherto that we being deliuered out of the hand of our enimies should serue him without feare in holinesse righteousnes before him all the daies of our life The godly Prince Prophet whose vertuous example as in al the rest so in this specially should be a spurre vnto vs calling into mind how God had delivered his soule frō death his eies frō teares his feet from falling brake out into these words What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take c. Neither said he more therein thē he performed For when he had offered sacrifices of thanksgiuing he made a holy banket therewith vnto the people in remēbrance of the manifold safeties deliuerances that hee had received He praised the Lord called vpon his name his Psalmes doe witnesse it to this day He promised that he would iudge righteously he did it He vowed to bring the arke into a place of rest he brought it How great cause we haue fathers brethrē to say as he said What shal we render so the Lord your selues do wel know How small care wee shew of doing as he did in praising God paying our vowes before his people the world doth see Our slacknes in frequēting of sermons of praiers of celebrating the Lord supper taking the cup of the salvatiō of salvations I wish it were amended rather then reproved We haue made vowes and promises to God al of perpetual holines in baptisme some of special duties in their several callings And is it to be hoped that every one of vs though not with Davids zeale yet with some measure of it will pay them to the Lord Sure the greater hope thereof is to be had if that which hath been moved of order to be takē for ordinary sermons preaching of the word on our Sabbath-daies in the afternoone not the forenoone only may be effected by the godly forwardnes of thē who should say And this will we doe if God permit The father of mercies God of al cōfort who hath raised vnto vs a most glorious light placed a most gracious Princesse in the throne of government among vs sanctifie vs throughout with his holy spirit that we may offer vp the sacrifices of righteousnes the fruits of our lips of our harts of our hands to the glory of his name for all his benefits powred on vs And 〈◊〉 hath hitherto giv●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deliuerances shewed mercy to his anointed so be 〈◊〉 we him for his Son our Saviors sake to do it stil. Saue her O Lord saue her out of the hād of al her enimies Let their