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A81499	The dammee cavalliers vvarning piece, in a view on the prophecy of the prophet Obadiah against the Idumean armies, that so cruelly insult over the Church and people of God.		1643 (1643)	Wing D155; Thomason 669.f.6[104]; ESTC R212586	8,287	7

THE DAMMEE CAVALLIERS Warning Piece In a view on the Prophecy of the Prophet OBADIAH Against the Idumean Armies that so cruelly insult over the Church and People of God August Civita Dei lib. 2. cap. 21. There is not any true Justice in any Common-wealth whatsoever but in that whereof Christ is the founder and the ruler if you please to call that a Common-weal which we cannot deny is the weale of the Commonalty Amos 4.18 Your young men have I slaine with the sword and have taken away your horses and I have made the stinke of your Campes to come up unto your nostrils yet have yee not returned unto mee saith the Lord. LONDON Printed for Abraham Everet against Saint Magnus Church at London Bridge Anno Dom. MDCXLIII THE ARGVMENT THe people of Edom were mortall enemies to the Israelites although their predecessors were brethren Esau and Jacob yet were the Idumeans a continuall vexation to the Church of Israel and that not only in themselves but by stirring up other neighbouring Nations against them by which meanes the people of God were exceedingly distracted Therefore the Lord sent the Prophet Obadiah to preach that glorious conquest which God had determined to worke for his Church and the great ruine and misery which should befall Edom and all malignants in the advancing of the Kingdome of Iesus Christ Verse 1. The vision of Obadiah Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom we have heard a rumor from the Lord and an ambassador is sent among the heathen Arise yee and let us rise up against her in battel THe vision imports as much as Revelation for as oft as the Scripture makes mention of speciall visions which appeared to the Prophets wherby the Lord meant the better to confirme them when he would have some excellent thing come to light wee are to understand that God did it by Revelation in those daies when the Scripture saith that the word of the Lord was pretious the reason was because there was no manifest vision 1. Sam. 3.1 So those Revelations in Num. 12.6 are called visions The meaning then is as much as if it had been said There is nothing in this book but what the Prophet being enlightned and having his eies opened by God sawe by speciall Revelation Thus said the Lord God concerning Edom. Tind translates it Thus hath the Lord God spoken upon Edom. The Prophet delivered the word the rod and execution was to follow to make good that word for it was not a fancy of his owne imagination but the very word of the Lord against Edom. Edom is a name of Esau given upon his greedy desire or mocking his intemperance who sayd to Iacob Feed me I pray thee with that red pottage therefore his name was called Edom Gen. 25.30 But it is here taken for the inhabitants of the Country which were the posterity of Edom. The Rabbins usually by Edom understand Rome Galatinus de Arcan lib. 4. c. 28. The Thargum say also that Iulius Caesar and the succeeding Emperours were originally of Edom. ●or in Mal. We have heard a rumor from the Lord and an Ambassador is sent among the heathen The Phylistines assailed and molested the Jewes on the one side by raising warre against them on the other side they had the Ammonites and the Moabites And on the other side were the Idumeans or people of Edom. They were of the Jewes bloud in Isaac and Rebecca the remembrance wherof ought to have turned them from all hatred and ranchor but they were trecherous still plotting and working to bring the people of God to ruine Therefore the Lord sends the Prophet here to thunder a terrible message in their eares Arise yee and let us rise up against her in battel Tind hath it Vp let us arise and fight against them And the Prophet Ieremiah saith to the same effect Gather ye together and come against her to the battel Jer. 49.14 For God had sworne by himselfe that Bozra the chiefe City in Edom should be brought to ruine and desolation verse 13. a fearefull doome for all damme Cavaliers and enemies to the Church of God God chargeth his people to gather themselves together to fight against his and their enemies and to admit of no peace with them Verse 2. Behold I have made thee small among the heathen thou art greatly despised BEhold I have made thee small among the heathen Tind I will make thee small Although the wicked Idumeans rested secure in their abundance were become great yet the Prophet tells them that the time was nigh at hand wherein they should be scattered and though they were a great Army yet should there but a few remaine For what can the wicked conceive in God but an extreame security and therefore when the Majesty of God commeth before them they fall but the faithfull on the contrary receive great joy and sweetnesse in the presence of God Although the Lord should so sharply correct his people as if he meant to cast them off and suffer wicked men to domineere for a time yet notwithstanding he will shew in the end such effects that they shall find how good the Lord is By the Heathen here is understood all people besides the Jewes all Infidells Gods people onely being taken from amongst them Isae 49.6 Thou art greatly despised some translations thou art utterly despised Tind Thou shalt bee utterly c. All the heathen even those to whom they were most endeared hee tells them were all ready to come upon them to helpe Israel under the leading of the Almighty and that at an houres warning whensoever he shall please to call them forth by whom they should be set at naught and lightly accounted of even as a base vile people not worthy of any respect or favour Verse 3. The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocke whose habitation is high that saith in his heart who shall bring me downe to the ground THe pride of thy heart hath deceived thee Tin hath lift thee up The Prophet here tells them that they were so swelled with pride that they thought that none was able to withstand them but alas they did but delude themseves for the Lord would so strengthen his people and raise such a mighty power against them as should bring them to ruine and desolation Here the Lord shewes wicked men what all their cunning devices and wicked treacheries against his people will come to in the end God will so fight for his Saints that their enemies shall be destroyed yea God will turne the hearts of those whom they have wickedly seduced ●o fight with them against the power of Jesus Christ that they shall helpe the people of God rather then the Lord will see them or their cause perish when wicked men grow most mad against the people of God and do them most wrong then is God nearest at hand to helpe Ps●l 27 2. Thou that dwellest in the clefts

put you into a great fear carry away your goods leave you fast bound and perhaps take away some of the lives in the family or torture them to relate where the best jewells gold and silver is and all this to come upon you on a sudden in the still of the night when you think to sleep quietly in your beds yet shall this misery come far short of that which is denounced against you How art thou cut off some render it how wast thou brought to silence this is no more but the admiration prophesied of which should be all about them to see their sudden downfall and the greatnesse of it Would they not have stollen till they had enough Tin should they not steale c. Here hee sheweth them that God will not take away part from them and then goe away for feare like thieves when they come to rob but would send such a judgement upon them as should sweep away all that ever they had If the grape gatherers came to thee would they not leave thee some grapes Some render it gleaning grapes Grapes are never gathered so cleane but they leave here and there a few behind though there be not a cluster to eate Mic. 7.1 but the judgement here against the Idumeans is so terrible that there shall be nothing left they shall be brought to utter ruine and shame God will make them bare and uncover their secret places and they shall not be able to hide themselves Jer. 49.10 O that the enemies of the Gospell of Jesus Christ would consider of this for certainly if they do not repent such a judgement will befall them either here or hereafter in hell oh that the wicked roarers and cursing Cavaliers of our Land that rage against the poore lambs of Jesus Christ would repent and leave the works of darknesse and walk honestly leave their voluptuousnesse and drunkennesse their chamber works and wanton tricks their contentions and malice and come to walk in the light of the Gospell of Jesus Christ Rom. 13.13 This would make England a happy Kingdome Verse 6. How are the things of Esau searched out how are his hid things sought up HOw are the things of Esau searched out how are his hid things sought up Tin But how shall they ripe Esau and seeke out his treasures The Prophet here shews them how wonderfully God Almighty doth discover all their sinnes though they be committed never so secret wicked men doe not consider how the Lord doth eye and take notice of all their wayes but he tells the Idumeans here as the Prophet Zephaniah did the Jewes when their hearts were so heardened against God that they would not regard his word nor his Prophets I will search Ierusalem with lights saith the Lord there and visit the men that are frosen in their dregges Zephaniah 1.12 There is nothing can escape the all seeing eye of God Verse 7. All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee and prevailed against thee they that eate thy bread have laid a wound under thee there is none understanding in him ALL the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border Tin renders it The men that were sworn unto thee shall drive thee out of the borders of thine own land he declareth that outward succour shall profit the Idumeans nothing at all shews with what power the Souldiers should be seised Now Idumea did not onely strengthen her self with the men of Warre of her own countrey but by a league which she had made with her neighbour Princes she had strangers sent to aide her He saith that they with whom the Edomites had made a league even they themselves should break their oath and raise their ensignes and garisons against them and pursue them with the sword till they had driven them out of their owne land The hearts of men are so in the hands of God that when it pleaseth him he strengthens them to conquer and at his will againe they are subdued and overcome The Prophet declares that even the very same people that had bound themselves in a league sworn by an oath to joyn with the Edomites even they should gather together against them and drive them out of the borders of Idumea that is quite out of the land The men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee and prevailed against thee Tind They that be now at one with thee shall deceive thee and overcome thee He here confirms that which he said before that even those in whom they had the greatest confidence and thought that such a peace had been confirmed as could not have been ratified yet the prophet tells them that even in them they should be deceived The men of thy peace in whom thou art so confident they shall deceive thee and prove thy ruine which sheweth how vain a thing it is to trust in man As if he should say that the Edomites playd the fooles to suffer themselves to be gugled with faire promises for we need not doubt but their neighbour Princes were forward enough in promising mountaines and wonders although slow to perform any thing They that eate thy bread have layed a wound under thee Tin Even that eate thy bread betray thee He further amplifies the matter shewing how little confidence is to be found in unfaithfull man in the time of trouble He is as Salomon saith a broken tooth and a sl●ding foot Prov. 25.19 The Edomites had put much confidence in strangers and advanced them to great honour in the land of Idumea with whom they did eate and drink and live as one people but see what confidence is in unconstant man they bound themselves with an oath but secretly wrought treason they promised them that they should prosper by joyning with them but when they once gained an opportunity they became their greatest enemies A domestick enemy is the most dangerous of all of all domestick enemies the table enemies do a Nation or a person most mischief because they are privy to most secrets they of Tyre their other neighbors that were so treacherous are not excused for this for though God suffered them to be punished because of their sinnes yet did not God doe it for their enemies sake but to make his power known to rebellious Edom. Thus saith the Lord for three trangressions of Tyrus and for foure I will not turn to it because they shut the whole captivity in Edom and have not remembred the brotherly covenant Amos 1.9 Breakers of leagues ruces and covenants are Rom. 13. ranked amongst such whom God in his secret judgement hath given up to a reprobate sense Faederum tutor vindex Deus est God is as it were a tutour or protectour of leagues and severely revengeth himself upon the breakers of them Yet must we take heed how we make covenants with Idolaters and unbelievers lest they draw us from the true service of God to the prophane worship of Idolls for they will cause thy sonne to turn away from me saith the Lord and serve other gods Amos 1.6 And therefore saith Paul be not unequally yoaked with infidells 2. Cor. 16.14 Which similitude may teach us this lesson that the yoke so holdeth the yoked together that either both must draw one way and so may we be drawn to Idolatry or else contention will breake the teame and yoake in pieces and so occasion some mischief to ensue There is none understanding in him Tind Or ever thou perceyvest it He shewes here that God did not correct them so rigorously is for good reason for they were a people of none understanding like those Isa 27.11 a people of no understanding therefore he that mad● them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour For seeing that true wisdome consisteth in the fear of God who is the fountaine thereof doth not the Holy Ghost justly condemne all them to be blind earth-worms who despise God to walk after their own inordinate lusts And yet such a blindnesse cannot excuse nor free us from being guilty of malice for they that offend God doe it maliciously notwithstanding they be hood winked in respect of the violences of their lusts Ignorance and malice they are joyned together yet so that this ignorance proceedes from a corrupt desire of the heart thence is it that the Hebrewes call all sinnes generally by the name of Ignorances and thus Moses saith They are a nation void of counsell neither is there any understanding in them O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end How should one chase a thousand two put ten thousand to flight except their Rock had sold them and the LORD had shut them up Deut. 32.28 29 30. Now every one may easily be drawn to subscribe to this by considering in himself with what crooked affections he is carried away for being once deprived of the light of holy doctrine destitute of understanding the devil sets a mā going with such head-strongnesse that he neitner fears Gods hand nor makes any account of his holy word Hence lit is that many brainlesse Bedlams are so ignorantly desperate in wickednesse that they will not suffer their judgement to be convinced that their cursing swearing drunkennesse luxurie robbing plundering and murthering the people of God will bring them to destruction and damnation without repentance and so go on roaring and domineering in the world for a time till they be met withall by the hand of God in suffering the Devill to draw them to such cruelties against the people of God