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A89517	A brief commentarie or exposition upon the prophecy of Obadiah, together with usefull notes / delivered in sundry sermons preacht in the church of St. James Garlick-Hith London. By Edward Marbury, the then pastor of the said church.	Marbury, Edward, 1581-ca. 1655.	1650 (1650)	Wing M566; Thomason E587_11; ESTC R206281	147,938	211

The reason why he doth destroy them It is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to them that trouble you 2. Psal 136.15 When he maketh inquisition for blood he remembreth the complaint of the poor His mercy endureth for ever 3. The enemies of the Church are Gods enemies Exurget Deus dissipentur inimici sui let God arise and let his enemies be scattered Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordeined strength because of thine enemies that thou mayest still the enemy and avenger Use 1 The Vse 1. It teacheth us to exercise our patience in all afflictions as Christ saith Rom. 5.3 Rev. 14.12 Fear not them that can kill the body c. Patience bringeth forth experience and experience hope Here is the patience of the Saints Use 2 2. It stoppeth any course of revenge that we may think upon that is Gods title O Lord God the avenger O God the avenger Ps 94 1. shew thy selfe clearly Dearly beloved avenge not your selves Use 3 3. It ministreth matter of joy to the Church Rom. 12. and of thanksgiving to God when the ungodly fall The feast of Purim was kept with joy for the fall of Haman and the delivery of the Church There is great joy at the fall of Babylon Use 4 4. This ministreth matter of terrour to the ungodly Hest 9 17. Rev. 19. to hear that the Lord Jesus comethwith thousands of his Angels he will render vengeance unto them with flaming fire and punish them with everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord 2 Thes 1.6 7 8. and from the glory of his power Gather together on heaps O ye people and yee shall be broken in peeces hearken all ye of far Countries gird your selves Isa 8.9 10. and yee shall be broken in peeces take counsell together yet shall it be brought to nought pronounce a decree yet shall it not stand for God is with us So let all thine enemies perish O Lord but they that love him shall be as the Sun when he riseth in his might Jud. 5.31 2. But this is not done all at once God doth judge the wicked by little and little ofttimes The reason is Reason 1 1. In respect of the wicked themselves that they might finish their unrighteousnesse suffer ye the tares to grow till the harvest When the harvest is yellow then he putteth in the sickle and tarrieth as David saith Till their abominable wickednesse be found worthy to be punished Reason 2 2. In respect of his Church that he may exercise the patience of his Saints If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small Prov. 24.10 Therefore God said he wou●d not cast out before Israel any of the Nations that Joshuah left Jud. 2.20 That through them he might prove Israel whither they will keep the way of the Lord to walke therein or not Reason 3 3. In respect of himself for the glory of his justice for his justice is not speedily executed upon them that do evill all the world shall see that God hath awaited the repentance of the wicked and given them time for it and because they will not repent he doth whet his sword and he prepareth instruments of death Use This teacheth us to tarry the Lords leasure the sons of thunder were too quick with Christ to offer to pray to God for fire from heaven to consume the Samaritans This is our common fault when any one offendeth us that we strait fall to cursing wishing the pox and the plague the vengeance and curse of God upon them If our fury had the managing of Gods vengeance who should live take heed of provoking the patience of God that justice that thou doest awake by thy curses owes thee a punishment for thy impatience and uncharitablenesse 2. We are taught that the reward of pride is fall and contempt So David faith thou Wilt bring down high looks no sooner doth God make the great ones of the world small but they are greatly despised It needs no proof where examples of great falls do fall so thick as they have done on this side the Alpes within these few yeers Never ran the streame and current of Suitours more strong to rising and growing and growen greatnesse then it ranne away from the fall thereof and sought another channell And they that flattered these in their spring and tendered them service and made them their gods in their fair weather in their fall of leaf forsake them and then humble petitions turne to scornfull libels I may say of our times truly as Hecuba Non unquam tulit Documenta fo rs majora Sen. Tio●s quam fragili loco starent superbi Thus men lay by the walls the ladders that they climb by and like those people of whom Boemus writeth they blesse the rising but curse the setting Sun Every man seeks the face of the Ruler so again low hedges are troden on This is the language of this Prophecie and Edom is one example hereof this point is throughly pressed afterwards Therefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall There is a naturall evill eye which beholdeth the prosperity of rising men with much envy that eye is glad of the fall of great ones observe the text how soone it followes I have made thee small Thou art greatly despised so soone doth contempt follow after a fall Let Edom be Sathan and let God bind him in chaines and give us faith to resist and overcome him how do we despise him and scorn him disarmed Let the world be Edom and let God declare the vanity and casualty that is in all these things that Satan tempteth men withall and we shall see the servants of God will despise it and use it as though they used it not Let a mans own corruptions be the Edom the lusts of the flesh that fight against the soule that make a man forget his piety to God his charity to his brother but let God by his word reveal to us the body of sin and by his law humble us under the mighty hand of God we shall despise and contemne the desires of our heart and we shall say I will go and returne to my first love for then I was better then now This making small is ruine to the ungodly it is medicine to the just the narrow gate that leadeth to life is easily entred by them whom God hath made small in their own eyes and estimation of themselves Christ made himself of no reputation not only ad sacrificium to a sacrifice but ad exemplum to an example that we might walk as he walked Small threads will passe through a Needles eye great cables are too big God resisteth the proud a small womb containeth us a small tomb burieth us and never doth the favour of God shine more on us or the attending service of Angels more minister unto us then when the world despiseth our

That as there is authoritas Scripturae the authority of Scripture which is the ground of faith so there must be testimoniu●● Ecclesiae the witnesse of the Church as Vincent Lirinensis well adviseth Cap. 2. Quia Scripturam Sacram non uno eodumque sensu universi accepterunt And in this case not having Antiquitatem ministrantem universall consent and we are put to it to search out what the most learned most sincere Divines in all ages have taught concerning this point here there is a necessity of consulting and declaring the constant judgement of the Church for the Testimony to the Truth 2. In all points of doctrine it giveth a great assurance to our hearers of our faithfulnesse if we declare our selves to be such as feed our hearers with the same Bread of Life which our fathers before us did break to their children 3. Whereas it is surmised that these citations of fathers be but a pride of our feeding and a vain boast of our learning It were more charitable to think 1. That our humility is such that we are not ashamed to professe by whom we learn any thing 2. That we have so unworthy an opinion of our own judgements that we chuse rather to apply the learned judgements of those that have gone before us then our own And who can deny but that our Preaching out of them is with the warrant of our Text. Sic dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord if the Lord spake by them to his Church For the use of Heathen writers I onely say with S. Aug. Omnis scientia in g●nere bonorum est In arundine sterili potest una pendere Truth is the language of God and if ignorant men wicked men Devils do speak truth we may quote and write them and we may say truly Sic dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord. The prophecie of wicked Balaam and of Caiaphas was the word of the Lord and the confession of devils testifying of Christ is a good confession there is no wrong done to the word Qui non est contra me mecum est He that is not against me is with me 2. The hearers lesson You are all taught to receive this wholesome doctrine which the Minister preacheth from the mouth of the Lord. It is not you that speak saith Christ he that hath ears to hear must hear Quod Spiritus dicit what the spirit speaketh When we tell the house of Jacob of their sins this is the word of the Lord. When we say unto you going in an evil way as Lot to the Sodomites Do not so wickedly Do not say Duru● est hic sermo he rayled to day against swearing or against drunkennesse c. I will tell you how you shall receive both comfort and great profit by our Ministery and the word is given to profit withall Mich. 2.7 Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly recto judicio rectis moribus I will give you a fair example Israel said to Moses Go thou now neer Deu. 5 27.28 and hear all that the Lord our God shall say and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee and we will hear it and do it God took it well and said to Moses I have heard the voice of this people they have well said all that they have spoken We must tell you that the Word of the Lord which he sendeth forth in our Ministery shall not return to him empty it shall finish the thing for which it was sent Therefore take you heed how you hear and consider what we say hide the Word that we Preach in your hearts that you sin not against God If we do our duty he that heareth us and receiveth us receiveth Jesus Christ that sent us and in these earthen vessels rich treasures are brought unto him He that refuseth us our Ministery refuseth him that sent us and the Word of the Lord which we bring to them will prove a rod correction to chastise them and although they feel not the pain presently it will be owing to them till affliction or Death assault them and then they will remember the Word of the Lord with much horrour Obadiah v. 1. We have heard a rumour from the Lord and an Embassadour is sent among the Heathen Arise ye and let us arise against her in battell We are now come to the Prophecie it self which holdeth to the end of the sixteenth verse The parts whereof are four 1. The judgement intended against Edom v. 1.2 2. All the hopes of Edom despaired v. 3.4.5.6.7.8.9 3. The cause provoking God to this severe processe against them v. 10.11.12.13.14 4. Gods revenge upon them v. 15.16 1. In the judgement intended observe 1. The discovery thereof 2. The effect of it 1. In the discovery observe 1. By whom it was discovered 2. How two wayes 1. By a rumour from the Lord. 2. By Embassadours 1. To whom this threatened judgement was discovered we have heard We that is the prophets of the Lord for although Obadiah writ this present Prophesie yet was not this judgement onely revealed to him but to many more of the Holy Prophets for so saith the Prophet Amos Surely the Lord will do nothing but he revealeth his secret to his servants the prophets not unto one onely but to more And so fully was this revealed to Jeremiah Amos 3.7 that he doth prophesie even in the same words against Edom but under the name of Bozrah which was the name of a Principall city in Edom as appeareth Gen 36.33 the words of the Prophecie are these I have sworn by my self saith the Lord that Bozrah shall become a desolation Jer. 49.13 a reproach a waste and a curse and all the cities thereof shall be perpetuall wastes I have heard a rumour from the Lord an Embassadour is sent to the Heathen saying Gather ye together and come against her c. The margents of the Bibles refer you to that place The Lord gave great charge to Israel concerning Edom Deut. 23.7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite for he is thy brother Yet because the Edomite was ever an enemy to Israel God revealed his judgement against them to many of his Prophets Balain● foretold their subjection to Israel And Edom shall be a possession Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies and Israel shall do valiantly Num 24.18.19 Out of Jacob shall be come that shall have Dominion and shall destroy him that remaineth of that city The Psalmist prayeth for their punishment Psa 137.7 Remember O Lord the children of Edom. It had not been lawfull for the Prophet to have provoked the justice of God against Edom unlesse God had revealed his purpose of judgement intended against them to him For Davids imprecations be all Prophecies The burden of Dumah that is of Idumaea Isa 21.11 He calleth unto me out of Seir Watchman what was in the night c.

Lord and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drinke it againe 23. But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soule bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over This calleth to my remembrance the word of the Apostle St. Peter For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God 1 Pe● 4.17 and if it first begin at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospell of God When God sent destroyers into Ierusalem their commission was Ezek. 9.6 Slay utterly old and young both maids and little children and women It followeth And begin at my Sanctuary The first cruelty that was executed on earth that is upon record was upon just Abel and the first death we read of was a violent death The first that suffered in Sodom any notable affliction was righteous Lot For he lived in much tribulation vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked ● Pet. 2.7 For that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soule from day to day with their unlawfull deeds After that cruell execution done upon our Saviour Christ by the Jewes and Romanes God sent his judgements abroad into the world but he began at his own Sanctuary the first that suffered was Steven then Iames the brother of Iohn the Apostles all but one suffered martyrdome the Church lived in persecution then God punished the Jewes by the Romanes and after that the Romanes lost their Monarchy The difference of their drinking was 1. The Church drinketh first and tasteth of the cup of wrath as Christ said to the sons of Zebedee Ye shall drink of the cup whereof I drink and be baptized with the Baptisme that I am baptized withall They drink some of the uppermost of the cup. 2. God punished them for a time but he took not his mercy utterly from them The Church have an end of their afflictions but the next point declareth the severity of God against the enemy Nations 5. The duration Continually This sometimes holdeth in temporall afflictions if Gods curse be upon Canaan Israel shall have their Land and they shall have charge to root them out and to destroy them utterly God remembreth what Amalek did to Israel The Lord hath sworne that he will have war with Amalek from generation to generation The face of the Lord is against them that do evill to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth These carry their destruction about them for evill shall slay the wicked malum culpae the evill of sin that infecteth them shall be malum poenae to punish and torment them The reason hereof is for where God once hateth he ever hateth He hath once said I have hated Esau let the blessing of his father feed him with the fat of the earth let his habitation be in the rock let his neighbour Nations make leagues and confederation with him let him have all the purchase of his sword for a time the right hand of God shall finde him out and not leave smiting him till he be utterly destroyed so he is threatned before His very hidden things shall be sought out the decrees of God be like himself without variablenesse or shadow of change God hath ever given great way to the intercessions of his Saints they have so farre prevailed that Abraham praying for Sodom gave over asking before God gave over yeelding to his Petition God hath shewed much favour to evill places for some few righteou● persons sakes that have been there But when he cometh to execute judgment once upon a place he saith three times in one chapt Though Noah Ezech. 14. Daniel and Job were in that place they should deliver but their own soules by their righteousnesse but they should deliver neither son nor daughter Therefore the word of God is not sent in the Ministry of his servants to convert reprobates that cannot be they cannot be converted and if God had revealed to us whom he hateth we might save a labour of preaching to them in hope of their conversion But the use of preaching and prayer is for such as are already in the Church to confirme the brethren and to build them up further for those sheep which are without to bring them to the fold for Christ saith he hath other sheep which are not yet of his fold and them he must bring to it And when you read of so many added to the Church it was not out of the number of reprobates but out of the number of Gods chosen who were before uncalled This is a secret which God concealeth within the closet of his own wisdome The Lord knoweth who are his Let the elect of God rest in this if the wicked of the earth that live in all kind of ungodlinesse be in the decree of his election they cannot miscarry though they hold out as the thiefe did till they come to the crosse to die Therefore let us despaire of no mans salvation amongst us But if the decree of Gods hatred be setled upon them there is no hope for Christ the remedy of sin undertaketh for no more then the Father hath given to him These howsoever they prosper on earth in things temporall they have drank a draught of deadly wine that ever riseth up in them and upbraideth them for God hath spoken it Nulla pax impio there is no peace to the wicked But he is like the raging of the unquiet sea ever foming out mire and dirt for a reprobate man dare not trust God 2. But if we come to the after reckoning in the day of judgement there can be no end of the woe of them whom God hateth their worm of conscience never dieth their fire of torment never is quenched There have been some whom Saint Augustine doth call Misericordes illos that have beleeved and affirmed 1. Some of them that the damned Devils and all after some long time of sharp punishment shall be received into favour De civ 21.17 these make hell but a Purgatory 2. Others say True that they shall be damned to everlasting pains but Donabit eas Deus precibus intercessionibus sanctorum suorum Cap. 18. The illusion that deceiveth them is this Non credendum est tunc amissuros sanctos viscera misericordiae cum fuerint plenissimae ac perfectissimae sanctitatis at qui tunc orabant pro inimicis quando ipsi sine peccato non erant tunc non orent pro supplicibus suis quando nullum caeperint habere peccatum And supposing that the Saints will pray to God for them he inferreth An vero Deus tunc eos non exaudiet tot tales filios suos quando in