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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16641	Abdias the prophet, interpreted by T.B. fellovv of Magdalene College in Oxforde. Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted	Brasbridge, Thomas, fl. 1590.	1574 (1574)	STC 3548; ESTC S109671	43,473	114

declaration of this double and triple sence of the Scripture and the manifolde commoditie thereof let vs consider the historie of Dauid persecuted by Saule and after exalted to the kingdome of Israell As touching the letter euery Christian mā that hath read the bookes of Samuel doth cōfesse that Dauid was liuing about a thousand yeres befere the cōming of our Sauiour in the flesh that béeing persecuted of king Saule he was diuers times in danger of death from the which God did wonderfully deliuer him and also deliuered Sauls into his hands but he would not lay hāds vpon him vnto death And when tidings was brought him that Saule was dead he executed the messenger as a murtherer bicause he confessed that he had slayn him Then he was proclaymed king and after that he was established in the kingdome he committed adultrie with Bethsabe and caused hir husband to be slayne and did other things displeasant vnto God for the whiche he was gréeuously punished This is the truth of the letter As touching the morall we learne by Dauids fall and the punishmēt of his wickednesse to looke circumspectly vnto our selues and to feare the Iudgemēt of God for our iniquities We learne by his whole life that affliction is a good scholemaster vnto godlinesse in that it restrayneth our carnall lustes and kéepeth downe our flesh but cōtrariwise prosperitie maketh vs forget the lawes of god for Dauid in aduersitie would not slay Saul the king when he was deliuered into his hands although he were his deadly enimie giuing vs an ensample of our duetie towards our Prince so narowly did he looke vnto his pathes but in prosperity he neglected Gods cōmandemēts swarued from his ordinances by cōmitting adultrie murther other offences Wherby we are taught that prosperitie is a slipperie place to stand vpon It is like an high stéepe mountayne narrow in the top vpō the which a man standing is in danger of euery wind to be blowē down to break his neck except he hold fast by some trée or hide him selfe vnder some bush or such like so in prosperity we are in dāger of euery assault of the flesh world diuel except we hold fast by a true faith in Christ who is a sure stay our only stay both in prosperitie aduersitie without whō we can not be safe neither in the moūt of honor welth nor in the valley of afflictiō For it may be that by the meanes of much rain the valley may be ouerflowē with water they drouned that dwel in it vnlesse they saue them selues by a bote or suche other meanes so in aduersitie we are in dāger to be ouerwhelmed with the waues of affliction to be prouoked to forsake God excepte we cleaue fast vnto Christ by a liuely fayth who is our only arke of saluation Therfore Dauid doth not say I trust in the valley but I trust in the Lord wherfore do they say vnto my soule flye vnto the mountains Thus much of the moral in the history of Dauid There is in it also an allegory or mystery prefiguring our sauiour Christ which we lerne by the words of the prophets Ezechiel Hoshea where God speaketh in thē after this sort I will set a shepherd ouer my shéepe he shall feede them euen my seruāt Dauid he shal féede them he shall be their shepheard I the Lord wil be their God and my seruant Dauid shall be the Prince among them he shall be king ouer thē and they shal haue one shepheard and my seruant Dauid shal be their Prince for euer The children of Israell shall turne and séeke the Lorde their God Dauid their king and shall feare the Lorde his goodnesse in the later days These Prophets Hoshea and Ezechiel liued the one thrée hundred yeres the other foure hundred yeres after Dauid Therfore séeing they prophesie of a Dauid to come after them in the later dayes and bicause they call him an euerlasting king which can not be verified of Dauid literally béeing a mortall man it is euident that they do meane an other prefigured by Dauid that is to say our Sauiour who gouerneth the true Israelites that is to say the elect people of God for euer who also in the Gospel calleth himselfe the good shepheard giuing vs to vnderstand that he is that Dauid the shepheard of Gods people of whome the Prophets do speake Therfore the historie of Dauid is mystically expounded thus Dauid in aduersitie therby brought downe as I may say vnto hell dothe signifie our Sauiour taking our nature vpon him and debacing him selfe vnto the lowest degrée hūbling him selfe vnto the death euen vnto the death of the crosse and Dauid deliuered from his enimies and placed in the kingdome doth signifie our Sauiour rising frō death and ascending vnto heauen where he is exalted vnto the right hand of God and gouerneth all the worlde Thus this historie may truly be expounded wherby we may vnderstande that in the holy scriptures much more is to be considered than the letter at the first sight offreth vnto vs After this sorte also the Apostle teacheth vs to expounde the historie of Salomon Dauids sonne God sayd vnto Dauid that he would giue him a sonne whose throne he would establish for euer and he would be his father and he should be his sonne where the letter directeth vs vnto Salomon who then had established the kingdome vnto him selfe when he had put to death those that rebelled against him and his father But the holy Ghost in the person of Salomon as in a type and figure teacheth vs that our sauiour Christ hauing subdued all the enimies of his father and of him selfe shall reigne for euer quietly with his faythfull seruants that herken vnto his lawes submit themselues vnto his gouernment Vnto this expositiō the Apostle leadeth vs where he applieth the words of almightie God vnto our sauiour saying Christ is so much the more excellent than Angels as he hath gotten him a more excellent name thā they For vnto which of the Angels saide he at any time Thou art my sonne this day haue I begotten thée And agayn I wil be his father he shall be my sonne Therefore séeing that the Apostle expoundeth the words to be spokē of our Sauiour which literally do appertein vnto Salomō I say that Salomō was a figure of our sauiour that in the history of Salomon there is an allegory besides the letter Likewise Ionas in the whales belly after deliuered by the power of God was not only an example of Gods omnipotent goodnesse but also a figure of the buriall resurrection of our Sauiour as we are taught by his owne interpretation in the Gospell And Hoshea the Prophet declaring the benefites of God towards the Israelites their vnthankfulnesse for the same reciteth their deliuerance out of Egypt In whom God

Samaria They shall possesse from the South to the Northe and from the West to the East Euen those Israelites that are nowe in captiuitie among the Canaanites in the Southe shall possesse vnto Sarepta in the North. And the inhabitantes of Ierusalem that are in captiuitie in Bosphorus in the North shall inhabite the cities of the South For God shall set mightie Captaynes ouer hys people Israell whiche shall subdue the Edomites and shall be zelous followers of God and shall set vp his true worshippe agayne They shall both instruct the people and also compell them to follow Gods lawes Therefore God shall rule and hee shall be king ouer them For they shal serue him A larger interpretation of Abdias Prophesie THis Prophesie was written agaynst the Edomites the posteritie of Esau a people bordering vpon the Southe side of Iewry towards Arabia They were the nexte neighbeurs of the Israelites the posteritie of Iacob Iacob and Esau otherwise called Israell and Edom were brethren and the children of Isaac and Rebecca When their mother was with childe with them they did striue in hir wombe wherewith she béeing moued enquired of God what that straunge fight shoulde meane Answere was made hir that she had two Nations in hir wombe that is to say that two Nations should rise of their posteritie that they should contende the one with the other and the elder should serue the yonger that is the Nation that shoulde come of the yonger brother shoulde subdue the posteritie of the elder brother and bring them in subiectiō Which was fulfilled in king Dauids tyme who with his people the posteritie of Iacob the yonger brother subdued the Edomites vnto him and vnto his Nation vnto whome they remayned subiect for the space of an hundred and threescore yeres vnto the reigne of Ioram the seuenth king of Iewry from Dauid In whose dayes they rebelled and euer after hated the inhabitants of Iuda as before their father Esau had hated Iacob As at other times so chiefly they vttered their malitious mind when Nabuchodonosor besieged Ierusalem for they ioyned with him agaynst Iuda It is not vnlikely but that he desired their help bicause they were neare borderers were acquaynted in the countrey But he was not so desirous of their ayde as they were to offer it For they reioyced greatly at the miserie of the Israelites they triumphed ouer them and were partakers with the enimies in spoyling the citie of Ierusalem Yea they persuaded them vtterly to destroy it As it is written Remember the children of Edom O Lorde in the day of Ierusalem whiche sayde rase it rase it euen to the foundation thereof By occasion of this miserie and calamitie of the Israelites the inhabitants of Idumea were mery and ioyfull but Gods people were full of sorrowe and heauinesse Therefore almightie God pitying their case stirred vp Abdias other Prophets to comfort them by declaring vnto them the destruction of the Edomites their enimies and by foretelling their owne deliuerance out of captiuitie which how cōfortable a thing it was vnto them wée may vnderstande by our own example who in the days of Mary our Quéene were oppressed with the members of Antichrist the deadly enimies of Gods people At what tyme they endeuoured as much as lay in them to destroy the heauenly Ierusalem that is to say the true Christians of whome they imprisoned and burned a great number and the residue they caused eyther to flée into voluntarie banishmente or else to reuolte from the Christian religion vnto Idolatrie vntill it pleased almightie God to looke vpon them with his mercyfull eyes and to call them vnto repentance If in this tyme of miserie God had sente vs some Abdias to tell vs that he woulde destroy our enimies and restore those that were banished into their ceuntrey and aduaunce them to honour and wealth this must néedes haue béene very comfortable vnto vs And so it came to passe in déede For God dothe not in any age leaue those comfortlesse that cleaue wholly vnto him Therfore he sente his Prophet Abdias among the Israelites to shewe them the destruction of their enimies and their owne deliuerance out of captiuitie to comfort them and to confirme them in the true worship of god This is the purpose of the Prophet whose prophesie may be deuided into two chapters In the first God threatneth destruction vnto the Edomites and in the seconde he promiseth deliuerance with great prosperitie and felicitie vnto the Israelites The first Chapter consisteth of foure partes In the first is declared the certayntie of their destruction In the seconde the staye and arguments wherby the Edomites might persuade them selues of safetie are taken away and confuted In the thirde the greatnesse of the calamitie that God would sende vpon them is declared And last of all are shewed the causes of their destruction It is not impertinent to the first parte to note héere the author of the prophesie It is called the prophesie of Abdias But it was reuealed by the holy Ghost euen by God him selfe and vttered by the ministerie of Abdias As the Prophete Zacharie sayth The Lorde God of Israell hathe raysed vnto vs a mightie saluation in the house of his seruante Dauid as he promised by the mouth of his holy Prophets which were since the world began And the Apostle that writeth to the Hebrues sayth At sundrie tymes and in dyuers maners God spake in olde tyme to our fathers by the Prophets And our Sauiour sayth that Dauid sayde in the spirite or by the holy Ghost the Lorde sayde vnto my Lorde sit thou on my right hande vntill I make thy enimies thy foote stoole Héere our Sauiour signifieth that Dauid spake not of him selfe but the holy Ghost by his mouth So it appeareth by the words of S. Peter that Noe in his time preached vnto the people not of him selfe but our Sauiour Christ in his Godhead preached by the mouth of Noe. For S. Peter speaking of the death and resurrection of our Sauiour sayth that he was mortified in the fleshe but quickned or raysed to life by the spirite that is to say by his Godhead In the whiche spirite saythe he Christ came and preached to the spirites that are in prison whiche were disobedient in the dayes of Noe. These words of our Sauiour of the Apostles and of Zacharie teache vs that it was our Sauiour Christ in Noe the spirite of God in Dauid and in the other Prophetes that spake vnto the people Therefore I conclude that the same spirite spake in Abdias and that God him selfe was the author of his prophesie This also is manyfest by the words of the Prophet For he sayth I haue made thée of smal power and of little reputation among the Nations The Prophet had no such power as to diminishe the reputation and power of the Edomites Therfore it foloweth necessarily that he spake not in his own person but