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A10338	The prophecie of Obadiah opened and applyed in sundry learned and gracious sermons preached at All-Hallowes and St Maries in Oxford by that famous and iudicious divine Iohn Rainolds D. of Divinity and late president of Corp. Chr. Coll. Published for the honour and vse of that famous Vniversity, and for the benefit of the churches of Christ abroad in the country, by W.H.	Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.; Rainolds, John, 1549-1607. Sermon upon part of the eighteenth Psalm. aut; Hinde, William, 1569?-1629.	1613 (1613)	STC 20619; ESTC S115589	99,467	170

wicked persons for whom another day is appointed the last and worst of all other Wherefore we haue need of patience c as we are exhorted therevnto by the Apostles that we be not discomforted though we see the wicked prosper liue in all iollity lest otherwise we fal into the sinne of murmuring as did the Israelites being ready to fall away from the profession of GOD because the rod had rest vpon them for a while And having seene so great workes wrought by Gods hand in Egypt yet at the red sea they feared least they shoulde haue beene swallowed vp of Pharaoh But Moses biddeth them be still and see the salvation of the Lord for that he knew there was a day appointed when Pharaoh should be discomfited which thing is not onely of the Israelites concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt but also to the comfort of all true Israelites and to the revenge of all that are like Pharaoh For though they shoot out their branches for a while and flourish as a green bay tree yet so so one as you shal passe by thē they shal be so gone that their place shall know them no more What greater affliction abode the Iewes then vnder Antiochus yet frō the time that the abhomination was set vp as Daniel sheweth it was lesse then 4 years The Saints of God indeed are troubled with impatiēcy and would gladly see their desire vpō the wicked that Gods name might be the more glorified in the salvation of his Saints which is set downe in the Revelation where the soules vnder the Altar do cry how long Lord holie and true but white long robes were given vnto them it was said that they should rest for a little season c let vs not thē discourage our selues with impatiēcie let vs not fret our selues lest wee bee moved to evill for the Saints confesse that God was holy true true in his promise who will no doubt take revenge of his enimies holy in grāting repētāce to sinners Let vs cal to minde the end that fell vpon Pharaoh Antiochus c. other miscreants and let vs wait the Lords leasure remembring that to the Saints were given white robes the signe of grace in this life and of glory in the life to come Moreover as wee hereby doe learne patience that we sret not at the prosperitie of the wicked so are we also to be wise that wee offend not after the manner of the vngodly through hope of escaping the iudgement of GOD hauing before our eies the daie which the Prophet here speaketh of and much more that whereof this is a signe and figure remēbring that the slower our punishment is in comming the heavier will it be when it commeth When Amnon had defiled himselfe his Sister Thamar following his filthy lust he streight was so displeased with her that he could not so much as abide her sight which is the first plague that GOD layeth on such lust There followed after another when hee was put to the sword but the third most heavie and grievous was behind which was to be cast with whoremongers into the lake that burneth How little ioy had Absolon after hee began to rebell a gainst his Father for within fewe daies the senselesse creatures practised the like disobedience against him that he did against his Father so that they which were made to haue served his benefit wrought his destruction The rich mans soule which was set at ease for many yeares as he thought how sodainely heard hee his iudgement that in that night it should be taken frō him The heathen and enimies of Christ promised themselues great good by Iulian hoping that hee should liue to root out all Christianitie in so much that Libanius the Sophist meeting with a Christian Schoolemaster asked of him in disdaine what the Carpenters sonne for so in contempt they tearmed our Saviour was then doing to whom the Schoolemaster made answer that the Carpenters sonne was making a coffin for his master Iulian. And so it pleased GOD that Iulian in his warre against the Persian king was slaine and brought to a shamefull end Now these things are written to let vs knowe that not only such as offend in lust as Amnon in disobedi ence as Absolon in coveteousnesse as the richman in impietie as Iulian shall bee punished even as they were but that it is vndoubtedly true which Solomon saith that GOD wil bring into iudgement every work with every secret thing be it good or evil Wherfore let vs learne his exhortation to feare God and keepe his commandemēts which is the whole dutie of mā Which though I haue sufficiently declared by examples of the Scriptures yet as the Apostle vsed the sentence of the Poet Menander after other sound proofes so for the youth that would heare what a Poet saith I will alleage the saying of the prince of Poets When Turnus had taken the spoile of Pallas he receaued this threatning Turn●… tempus erit magno cum optaverit emptu●… Intactum Pallanta cum spolia ista diemque Oderit which how truely it fell out is in another place declared when being striken to the heart hee heard these words Pallas te hoc vulnere Pallas Immolat poenam scelerato ex sanguine sumit We are to deale with Pallas not Pallas Pallantis but Pallas Pallados that is with the wisdome of the high est we our selues are his both body and soule he hath redeemed vs and made vs his owne If then wee make our selues thrall to sinne and wickednesse we spoile rob him and then let vs assure our selues the time will come when we shall wish that we had forgone these spoiles when it shall be said goe yee cursed into hell fire Let vs learne then to remember that daie and out of this place that God hath appointed a time wherein he will avenge himselfe of his enimies and not onely that but which is another point the meanes by which it shall be wrought which is by taking away their wise men bereaving them of strong men that being thus bereaved of such as might stand them insteed they may receaue the vengeance prepared for them How GOD doth deale with nations in these matters the histories shew and the Prophet Isaiah plainely when hee saith he will take away the wise-eloquent-artificer Meaning that howsoever they perswaded themselues that by those meanes and enimies they could not be destroi ed being furnished in such manner against all manner assaults yet GOD would doe it by taking awaie whatsoever might any way stand them insteed It was not to be thought that Babylon hauing in it such strength and wisdome could bee so taken as it was by Cyrus but we read that at such time they gaue themselues to drunkennesse and ryot Wherefore let vs not put our confidence in flesh and blood perswading our selues that because our nation is mightie in

evill against them in spoiling them of their goods and substance and in killing of their bodies Wherefore as hath beene said if we offend in the like if in greater we must looke to receiue the like reward So that if our hearts bee open to all manner of vngodly thoughts and wicked lusts our tongues prepared to vnrighteous speech out hands set to rob whether it bee the goods of priuate or publike persons if wee kill not the bodies but the soules of men let vs learne this lesson and dread this severe punishment For the wrath of God for such things commeth on the children of vnbeliefe For such things saith the Apostle not onely for the same Enoch prophesied of such saying behold the Lorde commeth with thousands of his Saints to giue iudgement against all men and to rebuke all the vngodly among them of all their wicked deedes which they haue vngodly committed and of all of their cruel speakings which wicked sinners haue spoken against him The Lord will come to iudge the wicked for their deedes for their cruell speaking and for their thoughts the fountaine and spring thereof This was prophecied by Enoch before the floud and then performed Iude applyeth it as spoken against all the wicked Paul vseth this execration If any loue not the Lord Iesus let him be accursed Maran atha The Syriake words signifie the Lord commeth and are the first words of that prophecie of Enoch adenouncing of that severe punishment which shall come on the head of al sinners as certainly as the Lord shall come to iudgement Here that we deceiue not our selues in iudging of this loue to Christ our Saviour hath set downe a ready note to discerne it by If yee loue me keepe my commandements I come not to the particular note of Pastours which our Saviour hath laid down to be this If thou loue me feed my sheep if thou loue me feed c. so earnest so tender so careful a charge noted in this repetition would be deeply considered of them that are in that place if there bee any loue in them if there be not thē I pronounce not this curse against Non residents but Saint Paul doth If any man loue not the Lord Iesus as these do not which feed not the lambes and sheepe of Christ let them bee accursed Maran●…atha Here also all hypocriticall Christians are warned to consider their waies which content themselues with an outward profession and thinke themselues safe while they remaine in the visible Church But our Saviour sheweth that hee is the vine wee the branches his father the husbandman so that each branch though he be in the outward barke fastned to the vine yet if he bring not forth fruit hee is cut off and cast into the fire It profitteth him nothing to haue beene in the vine if he be fruitlesse But if these speeches of Enoch Iude Paul and our Saviour doe the lesse touch vs because they be farre of and so wee pamper our selues esteeming the pleasures of sinne for a season greater treasures then the kingdome of heaven let vs consider the next point 2 That is neere When Ionah sent to the Ninivites cryed in their streets yet 40 daies and Niniveh shall bee aestroyed the people of Niniveh beleeved God proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them vnto the least I haue not the function of Ionah but the commission of Iohn Baptist to tell you that even now the axe is laid to the root of the tree and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is cut downe and cast into the fire How neere or farre of it is to every one can I not tell yet I am certaine that seeing the axe is even now laid to the root that it is not long to any Wherefore while it is yet called to daie let vs not harden our hearts while it is light let vs walke in the light while it is daie let vs worke the night commeth where in we shall not worke before that day come which shall make an ende of all daies For it is assuredly pronounced to be neere vpon all the wicked This is spoken not only of the particular iudgment of each man but also of that daie so called by an excellencie the day of iudgement which GOD hath appointed herein to iudge the world by Christ as Paule taught the Thessalonians which before GOD with whom a thousand yeares are but as one day is no doubt neere though as men count far and neere I knowe not whether it be far or neere It is not for vs to knowe the times and seasons which the Father hath placed in his own power He speaketh not only of the certaine houre but of the times in generall so that there is cōdemned the rash presumption of those which take vpon them to deliver the yeare and season of the Lords comming to iudgement As that fond Prophecie of Eliah not the Prophet but a Ribbin of the Iewes who hath written that the world should endure but 6000. yeares which is a Talmudicall dreame worthy that sincke of the Iewish filthinesse which yet neither the Iewes from whom it came do beleeue for thē must they beleeue that their Messias is come which they deny The world hauing cōtinued 5530 yeares So much the more blame worthy are some Christian Chronicles which haue alleaged this dreame as a thing of some weight and that is worse haue fathered it vpon Eliah Wherefore whether that great day bee farre or neere off I knowe not neither will I deny that it is neere for it may be neerer then any imagine For it shall come as a theefe in the night And although mockers scorners do laugh at it yet shall they once no doubt feele it The particular iudgement of the wicked as it was then said to be neere so may we say that of al such it is so now For though there were no more but the generall administration of things on the earth wee are thereby sufficiently taught that man which is borne of a woma hath but a short time to liue c. which if it may be truely affirmed of all men then how much more of the wicked which shal not liue out halfe their days Who thought that Sena cherib in all his power should haue beene murthered of his owne children in the temple of his owne Gods who would haue beleeved that Baltasar in the middest of his banquet should haue receiued his sentence of destruction and so suddainely to be slaine by the conspiracie of his subiects The rich man whose land was very fruitfull even then when he bad his soule take her rest had her taken from him There is none of vs hath greater Charter of his life then Senacherib Baltasar or the Rich man Sith that each particular mans iudgement cannot bee farre of and may be very neere for the old cannot liue long the young may die very quickly Let vs remember to

those goods hee had they tooke and divided amongst them Lastly they put him to a most villanous death as himselfe had before shewed by David a figure of him I am become a stranger to my brethren an alien to my mothers childrē They stood staring and looking on me they gaue me gall c all that looke on me haue me in derision c dogges haue compassed me a bout c they part my garments amongst thē and cast lots on my vesture they pierced my hands and feete c For albeit that some of these things were performed against our Saviour by the heathen yet were both Pilate the souldiers but ministers of the Iewes his brethren who were they that sought for him betraied him delivered accused him of treason and that cried out against him cru●…fie him c. This example of Christ who was thus cruelly entrea ted and put to death in such pitifull sort by his brethren is set forth for a patterne to vs to learne by like patience to suffer the like cruelty Because indeed that we are prepared and ordained for the like As Peter declareth here vnto are yee called for Christ also suffrea for vs leaving vs an example that we should follow his steppes And Paule saith that we are herevnto predestinate to be made like vn to the Image of the sonne of God and if we will raigne with him we must also suffer with him The Primitiue Church which immediatly followed Christ had sufficient proofe hereof as in the stoning of Steven the Imprisonment of Peter the often persecutions even by the professors of the faith and such as in part had it of all the Church especially of Paul who was abundant in labours in siripes aboue measure in prison plēteously in death eft in perils among his owne nation among false brethren Afterwarde how barbarously the true Christians were dealt withall by the Donatists Circumcellians c who dismembred their bodies put out their eies beheaded and burned them vnder the Emperours Valentius c. the monuments of those daies and the Ecclesiasticall histories do abundantly shew And in our time the Papists haue in this point dealte so outragiously that al the other which we haue mentioned seemeth nothing to it A fresh example whereof is that committed by them about this time 13. years in Paris vnder Charles the 9. when in that realme there were slaine 30000 Christians and that not in warre or battle mentioned as was this of the Idumeans but vnder the pretence of friendship shadowed by the marriage of the kings Sister to a Christian prince In which most treacherous bloudy practise were al the points observed that are here noted in the Idumeans Looked For it is recorded that on Bartholomew night the Queene-mother with the rest went out of the palace to see the carkases of such as they had murthered in the city And besides when they caused the body of that worthy Admirall to be hanged vpon the gibbet they went out of the city to fill their eies with that cruell sight Reioiced They caused for ioy hereof procession to bee made throughout Paris and when Gregory 13. heard of it hee caused the like ioy to bee shewed in his citie the gunnes to be shot of from his castle of Saint Angelo masse to be song in honour of this noble deed in Saint Lucies Church a French Saint And so that in that citie where neither Sylla Caesar nor any other ever triumphed over citizens though overcome with iust war not traiterously murthered by vninst crueltie Moreover by Parliament it was enacted that in memorie hereof there should bee kept each yeare on St Bartholomew day a generall procession through Paris Opened the mouth Which appeareth by the words of the king who swearing after his manner said that heaven with its weather seemed to reioice at their deeds Words of the murtherers of the Admirall c. And by the words of the President of the Parliament of Paris who signified that all was done by the kings authoritie contrarie to that which hee had in his letters signified to other princes cōmending the whole deed with that saying of Lewes one of their kings Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare He knowes not how to raigne that knowes not how to faine Besides the thing commended with an Oration and the Cardinall of Loraine set vp monuments of it which also Genebrard and Surius the most impudent Bolsecks that ever wrote haue in their Chronicle commended with this sclander that it was done because of their conspiracie Ransacking substance They not onely entred into the gate but houses of the oppressed rifling them at their pleasures yea so greedy were they of gaine that they slew some that were very Papistes to the ende that some of their complices which were next to possesse their goods might by that meanes be enriched Slaine How they slew not only those that fell into their hands but such as were escaped also may appeare by the sending of their letters after this 〈◊〉 done at Paris to Lions and other places that they might to fill vp the measure of the kings iniquitie destroy the remnant We here in England haue not yet GOD be praised felt this manner of crueltie but seeing it is our lot to abide it we must for our part be prepared for it and arme our selues with patiēce against it come though we be not free presently for all that they date doe For there want not among vs false brethren as such as in their hearts murther vs. And albeit wee suffer not so much as Abel did of Cain yet feele we as much as Isaac did of Ismael namely sco●…es and sclanders Such were Davids brethren of whom he saith that they tore him in peeces His familiar friends with whom hee tooke sweet counsell c. which is so certaine to befal likewise vnto vs that our Saviour out of the Prophet Michah saith that the sonne shall rise against the father c. and a mans enimies shall be even they of his owne houshold But as it is there by the Prophet laid downe for a comfort to the godlie Let not the enimie reioice for though I fall yet shall I rise againe c. mine ●…es shall behold her now shall she be troden downe as the m●…re in the streets 2 The second thing to be of vs considered was in that which they should not haue done wherein as hath beene said we are moved to brotherly kindnesse Wherein I request you to remember the points of crueltie which haue beene laid out said to haue been sound in them 1 Reioice This ioy at others harmes ought to bee farre from vs being a token of hatred and envy For if we goe to the root as it is delivered elsewhere it is evident that it proceedeth from an evill mind For whō men hate him wish they evill vnto and would gladly see it

sentence neither of humanitie only but of duty for who cā lay his hand on the Lords anointed saith he be giltles At least if they would not be still as he was for conscience sake yet for feare they might be seeing that a foule of the aire shal cary the voice a bird shall declare the matter if they but speak euil of the king yea in their thought much more if they intend to doe him any evil And sure if they turne not if they whet their swords bend their bowes and make them ready getting thēselues deadly weapons prepare their arrows for persecutors they haue travelled with lewdnesse and conceiued mischiefe to bring forth a lie into the pit that they haue digged they shall fall their mischiefe shall returne vpon their owne heads and on their ●…wne pates shall their crueltie light For God doth giue revengements vnto his anointed and sheweth mercy to his Queen advancing her aboue them who rise vp against her But whether they doe vse this benefit of God to their good or no let vs my deere brethren let vs our houses as Iosua said serue the Lord. And that not by acknowledging only Gods goodnesse in this and all his benefits the foremost steppe to thankfulnesse but the next also I meane by confessing of him among the Gentiles and singing to his name with yeelding him all glory for it For the Heathens thēselues in that smal knowledge of God which sin left thē did acknow ledge him to be the worker autor of the cōmodities that they had In the Greeke Poets the Gods are surnamed by a cōmō title the givers of good things The Captaines of the Romanes having conquered their enimies took part of the lawrel which they did beare in signe therof laid it in the lap of Iupiter The Caldaeā king subdued divers nations took their holds spoiled their cities seazed on their wealth ascribing that his power force to his God But they did not glorifie God as they ought neither were thankfull They robbed him of his honour and gaue it vnto many Gods their owne Idols Images of mortal creatures Yea part of the lawrel they kept to thēselues sacrificing to their nets burning incense to their yarne because by thē their portion was fat their meate plenteous The time of this ignorance is overpast brethrē the daies are come wherof it was prophecied that the earth should be ful of the knowledge of the Lord as waters cover the sea How much the more excuselesse shall our fowle ingratitude vngodlines be if we be no thankfuller to him then the Heathens thē the Greeks the Romans the Caldaeans were Chiefly sith beside the temporall benefit of the preservation of our Prince and vs wee haue received graces more excellent precious to endure for ever name ly the enioying of his Sonne Christ Iesus our wisdome our righteousnes our sanctificatiō our redēptiō the Spirit of adoption whereby we haue boldnes to cry Abba father the peace of conscience tranquillity of mind contentednes of heart the inheritāce immortal vndefiled that withereth not the cōfort the protectiō the assurāce of his loue in a word so many blessings both of this life of the life to come as never any natiō vnder heavē greater Wherfore I beseech you by the mercies of God who spared not his own Son for our sakes but gaue him to the death the vile death of the crosse that we might liue through him let vs confesse him sincerely faithfully not only in words but in deeds confesse him among the Gentiles evē those which are strāgers aliēs frō the faith that we may win thē to the Lord. Let our cōversatiō be honest amōg thē that by our good works which they shall see they may glorifie God in the day of the visitatiō Let vs cast away profane songs of wantonnes of lightnes of vanity sing vnto his name vsing both our voice speech in al respects as it becōmeth Saints To be short let vs shew let vs striue to shew by al parts of duty a thankfull acceptance of the great saluatiōs that he hath wrought for vs zealous remēbrance of the end wherto that we being deliuered out of the hand of our enimies should serue him without feare in holinesse righteousnes before him all the daies of our life The godly Prince Prophet whose vertuous example as in al the rest so in this specially should be a spurre vnto vs calling into mind how God had delivered his soule frō death his eies frō teares his feet from falling brake out into these words What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take c. Neither said he more therein thē he performed For when he had offered sacrifices of thanksgiuing he made a holy banket therewith vnto the people in remēbrance of the manifold safeties deliuerances that hee had received He praised the Lord called vpon his name his Psalmes doe witnesse it to this day He promised that he would iudge righteously he did it He vowed to bring the arke into a place of rest he brought it How great cause we haue fathers brethrē to say as he said What shal we render so the Lord your selues do wel know How small care wee shew of doing as he did in praising God paying our vowes before his people the world doth see Our slacknes in frequēting of sermons of praiers of celebrating the Lord supper taking the cup of the salvatiō of salvations I wish it were amended rather then reproved We haue made vowes and promises to God al of perpetual holines in baptisme some of special duties in their several callings And is it to be hoped that every one of vs though not with Davids zeale yet with some measure of it will pay them to the Lord Sure the greater hope thereof is to be had if that which hath been moved of order to be takē for ordinary sermons preaching of the word on our Sabbath-daies in the afternoone not the forenoone only may be effected by the godly forwardnes of thē who should say And this will we doe if God permit The father of mercies God of al cōfort who hath raised vnto vs a most glorious light placed a most gracious Princesse in the throne of government among vs sanctifie vs throughout with his holy spirit that we may offer vp the sacrifices of righteousnes the fruits of our lips of our harts of our hands to the glory of his name for all his benefits powred on vs And 〈◊〉 hath hitherto giv●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deliuerances shewed mercy to his anointed so be 〈◊〉 we him for his Son our Saviors sake to do it stil. Saue her O Lord saue her out of the hād of al her enimies Let their