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A68508 A commentary or exposition vpon the first chapter of the prophecie of Amos Deliuered in xxi. sermons in the parish church of Meysey-Hampton in the diocesse of Glocester. By Sebastian Benefield ... Benefield, Sebastian, 1559-1630. 1629 (1629) STC 1862; ESTC S101608 705,998 982

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thy brother and then come and offer thy gift First be reconciled to thy brother Be reconciled What is that Reconciliatio saith n Gillebert super Cantica ser 32. one est iterata animorum dissidentium conciliatio Reconciliation is a renued agreement of dissenting mindes This is it into the commendation whereof the sweet Singer of Israel breaketh out Psal 133.1 Behold how good and comely a thing it is for brethren to dwell euen together If either profit or pleasure can allure you then behold consider well and weigh seriously how good how profitable and necessary and how comely how pleasant and excellent a thing it is for brethren not only naturall brethren but brethren in Christ all the sonnes of God the members of his Church and partakers of the selfe-same doctrine and life in Christ to dwell euen together not onely in one house but specially to be of one affection and consent to maintaine betweene themselues brotherly loue and mutuall consent Behold how good how comely a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in vnity It is as the sweet perfume and ointment that holy oile which was powred vpon the head of the high Priest and ran downe vpon his beard and so to the skirts of his garment it is as the dew of Hermon which fell vpon the mountaines of Sion Both these resemblances recommending vnto vs the pleasure and profit of vnity brotherly loue and concord I commended vnto you in my Sixteenth Lecture vpon the first Chapter of this prophecie and therefore now I say no more of them S. Paul 1 Cor. 12. treating of spirituall gifts and their diuersity there reckoneth vp the word of wisdome the word of knowledge faith the gift of healing the doing of miracles prophesying kindes of tongues the interpretation of tongues and sheweth how all these are wrought by the same Spirit who distributeth to euery man seuerally as he will Then vrging this seuerall distribution by way of interrogation Are all Apostles Are all Proph●ts Are all Teachers Are all doers of miracles Haue all the gifts of healing Doe all speake with tongues Doe all interpret He exhorts the Corinthians to couet after the best things and concludes his Chapter thus I will yet shew you a more excellent way This more excellent way is the way which now I shew you beloued This way is loue O striue yee to walke in it Let the remainder of your daies be spent therein Know ye that whatsoeuer good parts yee haue or whatsoeuer good workes ye doe it auaileth you nothing if you haue not loue Looke but to the beginning of the thirteenth Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians There shall you finde it verified what I haue said vnto you Though you speake with the tongue of men and Angels and haue not loue yet are you as sounding Brasse or a tinkling Cimball Though you haue the gift of prophecie and know all secrets and all knowledge yea if you haue all faith so that you can remoue mountaines and haue not loue yet are you nothing Though you feed the poore with all your goods though you giue your bodies to be burned and haue not loue yet it profiteth you nothing My exhortation must be vnto you in the same blessed Apostles words Chap. 14.1 of the same Epistle Follow after loue And I shut vp this exercise with a sweet Fathers sweet meditation o Bernard serm 9. in Coena Dom. Charitas te domum Domini facit Dominum domum tibi Loue it makes thee a house for God and God a house for thee according to that 1 Ioh. 4.16 God is loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him A happy Artificer thou art sweet loue that art able to frame for thy selfe such a house as God is This house is not built of morter and bricke nor of stone nor of wood nor of siluer nor of gold nor of precious stones It exceedeth and farre surpasseth siluer and gold in comparison of it precious stones are vile and of no reputation This house is an euerlasting house before all ages before all times it containeth all things it comprehendeth all things it createth all things it giueth life to all things In this house the blinde receiue light the lame strength to walke the crooked straightnesse the weake health the dead their resurrection there is none wretched in it all therein are blessed for they are entred into their Masters ioy Into which ioy that we may in due time enter let vs follow after loue wee know that God is loue and that whosoeuer dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him Now God grant that we may all dwell in him THE Eighteenth Lecture AMOS 1.12 Therefore will I send a fire vpon Teman and it shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah I Am now come to the last part of this prophecie against Edom which is the denuntiation of God iudgements against Edom for his sins expressed in this twelfth verse This twelfth verse doth not much differ from some precedent verses in this Chap. 4 7 and 10. The same punishment which in the fourth verse is threatned to the Syrians vnder the names of Hazael and Benhadad and in the seuenth verse to the Philistines vnder the name of Azzah and in the tenth verse to the Tyrians vnder the name of Tyrus is here in this twelfth verse denounced to the Edomites vnder the names of Teman and Bezzah And therfore as in the forenamed verses I haue done so doe I in this recommend vnto you three circumstances 1 The punisher the Lord I will send 2 The punishment by fire I will send a fire 3 The punished the Temanites and Bozrites the inhabitants of both cities I will send a fire vpon Teman and it shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah The punisher is the Lord for Thus saith the Lord I will send The doctrine naturally arising hence is this It is proper to the Lord to execute vengeance vpon the wicked for their sinnes This truth hath heretofore once and againe beene confirmed vnto you The lesse need haue I now to insist vpon it Yet may I not passe it ouer vnsaluted It is proper to the Lord to execute vengeance c. This office of executing vengeance vpon the wicked for their sinnes God taketh vpon himselfe Deut. 32.35 Where hee saith Vengeance and recompence are mine This is confessed to be God his due by S. Paul Rom. 12.19 It is written vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord and by the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrewes Chap. 10.30 Vengeance belongeth vnto me I will recompense saith the Lord and by the sweet Singer of Israel Psal 94.1 O Lord God the auenger O God the auenger The Prophet Nahum Chap. 1.2 to the terrour of the wicked proclaimeth it God is iealous and the Lord reuengeth the Lord reuengeth euen the Lord of anger the Lord will take vengeance on his aduersaries and reserueth wrath for his