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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

come to passe that every one that findeth me shall slay me Adoni-Bezek confest this justice of retaliation executed on him for they took him and cut off his thumbs and great toes and he said Threescore and ten Kings having their thumbs and toes cut off gathered their meat at my table Ver. 23. Jude 1.6 as I have done God hath requited me So saith God to the Chaldeans Because thou hast spoyled many Nations Heb 2.8 all the remnant of the people shall spoyle thee And God made this judgement good against Amalek for they sought to destroy Israel and God by Israel destroyed them Samuel said to Agag their King As thy sword hath made women childlesse so shall thy mother be childlesse among other women 1 Sam. 1.5 33. so he hewed him in peeces before the Lord. Ahab slew Naboth and himself was slain 1 King 21.19 Jezabel shed Naboths blood Thus saith the Lord In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick even thy blood also The dogs shal eat Jezabel by the wals of Iezreel As Solomon threatneth They shall eate the fruit of their own way Prov. 1.31 and be filled with their own devises The Apostle calleth this righteousnesse in God It is a righteous thing with God 2 Thes 1.6 to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you The word is decomposite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifieth a retribution contrary to them that in the same they shal be Patients wherein they have been Agents From this fountain of justice cometh that Law judiciall Ex. 21.24 an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth which Law Christ did not abrogate but interpret and put it into the power of the Magistrate where it ought to be taking it away from private persons Vse Let us all lay this justice of God to heart and let us look for it at the hands of God that he will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to us our iniquities unrepented Let the Adulterer heare Job If my heart have been deceived by a woman or if I have laid wait at the doore of my neighbour let my wife grind to another Job 31.9 10. and let other men bow down upon her Let the cruel oppressor of his brethren look to be oppressed in himself or in his posterity If the daughter of Babel oppresse Blessed shall he be Psa 137.8 that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us It it Gods own word He that honoureth me him will I honour but he that despiseth me shall be despised Doctr. 3 There is no true love and peace between the ungodly Here hath been much confederacy between Edom and other Nations they were men of Peace they did eat and drink together yet even those turned perfidious to Edom and betrayed him Christ in his legacy of Peace said pacem meam do vobis non sicut mundus dat Job 14 27 My peace I give unto you not as the world giveth For Either it is pax adulationis the Peace of Adulation of which David saith Ol●um peccatoris non confringet capat meum Ravennas note is that in all Sacrifices to God salt was used for God cannot be flattered when we say the most we can of him we come short Adulatio quam similis est amicitiae non imitatur tantum sed praecedit Poore men have the advantage of the rich in this for who flattereth them Sinners say we need not this waste why should we bestow it on them that cannot requite us We will save it and give it to them which are mighty 2. Or it is pax malae confederationis the peace of evil confederacie such as is between Thieves we will all have one purse these be as old Jacob said of Simeon and Levi fratres in malo brothers in evil St. Aug. calleth this ne fariam amicitiam a wicked friendship into their secret let not my soule come These tares bind themselves in bundles for the fire 3. Pax simulationis a dissembling peace when men hide malice under a shew of Peace that they may sub amici fallere nomen that they deceive under shew of friendship so ●udas kisseth and betrayeth Amasa entreateth and stabbeth 4. Pax temporalis a temporall peace when men maintain love and friendship and exchange great gifts and tender love and service to serve a turn So men set up the Ladders that they clime by as high as they can but when their turn is served they lay them along upon the ground This is the peace which the world giveth and there is no true friendship in it Pro. 17.17 for a friend loveth at all times Nec ullis divulsus querimoniis Suprema citius solvit amor die True peace is like the dew of Hermon none but the Elect of God have it My Peace I give to you it is not like the light of the Sun that shines on good and bad This is like the light that shined on Gos●en when all Egypt else was in palpable darknesse This is like the pretious oyle powred on Aarons head and running down to the skirts of his raiment Psa 133.2 3. for there the Lord Commanded the blessing and life for ever more Aristotle held that friendship contracted either by pleasure or profit could not hold for the cement and glew that should tye them together is but weak this continuation is but hujus ad hoc of this to that But the union of the faithful is hujus in hoc of this in that For they be incorporate in one body and they are made members of Christ and members one of another one flesh one body We see men in their greatnesse followed and served and petitioned observed and presented with choisest and richest gifts if we see them decline in favour or power we see them forsaken of their servants We see young prodigals frequented with company courted with complements feasted and swelled with all delights but when the fountain of this friendship is drawn dry and the means faile who calleth those men friends or seeketh their conversation This yet appeareth more plainly in the Idumeans of Rome that have long persecuted the true Church of God for though they have laboured ever since the first corruption of the Church to maintain their Hereticall opinions yet could they never be at any perfect peace amongst themselves And this ofter our Church may boldly make to them that there is no Tenet in our Religion we maintain against them but we wil renounce it if we do not find it averred by some one or most of eminent learning amongst themselves And because it will take up too much time to give instance in al particulars of our difference from the Trent Church For a taste let me refer so many as are desirous of better satisfaction to read that learned proofe of this truth in the Reverend Dean of Glocesters third book of the Church at the end of it where he nameth the agreement of our