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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

but their goods were Guelphes and must pay for it The Gibellines of Papia could not foresee this our Catholikes by them may Let them leaue their brainsicke desires and divelish purposes of bringing a Faci●… Canis into their country least by experience they f●…le which God forbid that though themselues be Catholikes their goods may be Heretikes perhaps some heretike-Heretike-blood in their bodies also by contagion of ours The Lord take away this stony heart from them and giue them an heart of flesh a new spirit that wee may all iointly praise him for the deliverance of our gracious Queene pray for the continuance of her blessed governement to the honour of his name the furtherance of his gospell the welfare of his Church the peace and prosperity of our English Iuda the griefe disappointment of Popish Assyrians and the confusiō of Antichrist At Corpus Christi College in Oxford Octob. 24. 1586. PSAL. 18. VER 47 48 49 50 51. 47. The Lord liveth and my blessed strength therefore let the God of my salvation be exalted 48 The mighty God that giveth me revengements and bringeth people vnder me 49. That delivereth me from mine enemies yea thou hast exalted me aboue them that rose vp against me thou hast delivered me from the cruell man 50. Therefore will I confesse thee O Lord among the Gentil●… and I will s●…g vnto thy name 51. He giveth great deliverances to his king sheweth mercy to his annointed to David and to his seed for ever IT hath beene a godly custome of the faithful although not observed so customably alwaies as by the Rules of faith it ought that when they received any speciall benefit either in attaining to things commodious for them or 〈◊〉 avoiding of discommodities they lifted vp their voices to the authour of it the Father of mercies the God of all comfort and did honour him with giving speciall thankes for it Melchisedek king of Salem a man of power and credit in the land of Canaan had not so great cause to care for the state of Abram Lot two strangers in the land Yet when Abram had rescued Lot being taken and had spoiled the spoilers Melchisedek brake forth into his praise who gaue the victorie Blessed bee the high God which hath delivered thine enimies into thy hand The state of the Israelits touched Moses neerer how much the lesse is it to be marvelled at if he thought it his duty to magnifie the Lord for guiding them out of Egypt through the red Sea and drowning Phara●… with his host Though that the childrē of Israel themselues an vnthankfull murmuring and stif●…ecked nation should ioine therein with Moses all both men and women it is a president worthy to be noted to the shame of Christiās if in greater measure of the grace of God we shew lesse gratitude for his graces The feasting ioy that the Iewes kept for their owne deliverance out of the snares of Haman and for his destruction with the partakers of his conspiracie might seeme to bee only a pro●…ne reioycing as worldly ●…ded men c●…monly doe vse at their good successes But that it was holy and seasoned with a sacrifice such a sacrifice as lawfully they might offer there where then they were dispersed the circumstance of sending parts vnto the poore with precepts and examples of daies in like sort kept holy to the Lord doth argue Wee are assembled at this present fathers and brethren beloued in the Lord to giue him most humble most harty thanks for his great and singular goodnesse shewed vnto vs in discovering the traiterous intent of graceles wretches who vilanously conspired to take away the life of our gracious Queene whom God long preserue to kindle flames of vprores through the realme to the vtter wasting of her faithfull subiects O that wee had the hearts to praise him for it with the like religious affection of spirit in zeale and sinceritie as Melchisedek did for Lot recovered by Abram as Moses and the Israelites for the Egyptian yoke broken as the Iewes for their safety and the destruction of their enimies Sure we h●…ue greater causes so to doe then any of them had For Lot was but one and that a meane man nor much indangered more then of losse of libertie Here a most excellent Princesse was in hazard not of libertie but of life with God knoweth how many righteous Lots besides And the bodily t●…s which the Israelites endured in Egypt vnder the taske-mast●…s that Phara●… placed over them were nothing in comparison of the spirituall bondage of Antichristian tyrants to whom might these Egyptian imp●… h●… had their wills we should it is likely h●…e beene most lamentably enthralled Neither hath the Lord so mercifully delivered vs out of the Lions mouth at this time onely but at sundry other heretofore often that the Iewes could not be so much beholding to him for that of Haman who did not liue to put them more then once in danger Wherefore that wee may accept the more thankfully and dutifully esteeme of his inestimable goodnesse in saving our gracious Queene and vs her subiects from so great so many so 〈◊〉 M●…iefs I haue thought good to take for the ground of mine advertisement and exhortation these wordes which you haue heard written by the godly Prince and Prophet David in the eighteenth Psalme aso●…g of thanksgiving which he made when the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enimies out of the hand of Saul Forso is it noted in the title thereof and manifested farther by the course of the story i●… the second of Samuel where the same is wholly registred againe well-nigh word for word as a most worthy and memorable monument to bee thought vpon eft●…s of all posteritie that on like favour received of the Lord they might shew themselues alike gratefull to him In these words therefore comprehēding briefly the purport and 〈◊〉 of the whole Psalme by way of conclusion two things are recomm●… to our considerations one is the benefite of God in delivering David from his enimies the other the thankfulnes of David vnto God for the deliverance The benefit of God in delivering David is signified by that he faith The Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spec●… of his being his everlasting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wh●… sense notwithstanding be is said to liue and to ●…ly but in respect of his workes his effects to David ward in whose preservatiō he sheweth that he 〈◊〉 and saueth his and ruleth all things by his 〈◊〉 providence Which meaning David openeth in that hee adioineth and my blessed strength calling God his strength his fortresse his rocke his blessed strength and fortresse his rocke his blessed strength and fortresse because his life his safety his welfare is maintained by the might and mercy of the living God As in the beginning he testified also The Lord is my rocke and my fortresse and my

Esau's ofspring the people of the Idumaeans shall be great and grievous as being wrought by warriours who shall spare nought either of feare as theeues doe or of compassion as grapegatherers If theeues had come vnto thee if robbers by night how art thou destroyed would they not haue stollen that which were enough for them If grapegatherers had come vnto thee would they not haue left some grapes How are the things of Esau sought out his secret things are searched Saint Peter advertising the Iewes and the Proselytes that they should receaue the gift of the holy Ghost if they repented and turned to Christ for to you saith he is the promise made and to your children to all them that shal be long hereafter even to as many as the Lord our God shal call the same in like sort may I say vnto you fathers brethren touching this promise of bringing your enimies to vtter ruine and destruction For God said to Abraham I will blesse them that blesse thee and I wil curse them that curse thee meaning that hee would make a perfect league with him and bee at peace with his friends at warre with his enimies But the league and covenant which God made with Abraham hee made with Abraham and his seed And the seed of Abraham are all faithfull Christians To vs all therefore is the promise made that God will blesse our friends and will curse our enimies Moreover his particular curse and plague ensuing it vpon the Idumeans is a patterne of that which shall fall on such as tread in their steps For the punishment of the Iewes who lusted after evill things is threatned to the Gentiles if they lust as the Iewes did and if yee be partakers of the sinnes of Babylon yee shall receaue of her plagues Now among the eni mies of the faithfull Christians others doe more resemble the Philistines or Ammonites or Moabites or Amalekites or Cananites or Assyrians there are none liker to the Idumeans then are the Papists as it hath beene shewed The Idameans borne according to the flesh of the seed of Abraham the Papists by ofspring come of Christian parents The Idumeans circumcised as children of the covenant the Papists baptised in the same that we be The Idumeans serued not the God of their fathers according to the law neither doe the Pa pists in spirit and truth after the Gospell The Idumeans persecuted the Israelites to death and vexed thē with all crueltie the Papists haue butchered the godly with massacres and made themselues drunken with the blood of Saints Wherefore the spirit of the Lord assureth vs that the Papists shall bee consumed in his wrath when it shall burne suddenly and as they haue followed the facts of the Idumeans so they shall feele their punishments I speake not herein of all that are Papists as neither did the Prophet of all Idumeans For the remnant of Edom shall inherit with Israel Papists with vs as many as shall seeke him whose name is called vpon them Whi●…h God grant they may doe by faith in his mercy that Papists may liue and papistrie may die But I speake of all who stubbornely persist in the Popish heresies In whom shal be fulfilled the Apostles prophecie touching the man of sinne the Lord shall consume them with the breath of his mouth And so that which is written of Edom by the Prophet may be said by vs to the Romish Antichrist If theeues had come vnto thee if robbers by night how art thou destroyed would they not haue stollen that which were enough for them If Grapegatherers had come vnto thee would they not haue left some grapes How are the things of Antichrist sought out his secret things are searched Howbeit as S. Paul though he were assured that al who sailed with him should escape aliue yet said that they could not escape except the marriners abode in the ship so though it bee certaine that Antichrist and his members shall be consumed yet cannot that bee except they be set vpō by warriers For God doth worke by meanes ordinarily And this is the meanes that he hath ordained for the atchieuing of that conquest as we saw before in the Ambassadours message Arise and let vs rise vp against her to battel The warriours whose service the Lord doth vse thereto are all his servants in a sort his people most willing in the day of his armie but specially Preachers and Ministers of his word For his word is the rod of his mouth the breath the sword whereby he doth destroy his enimies Ministers are souldiers by whose hand hee weeldeth it For which cause their function is compared to warfare in that it is written by S. Paul Who goeth to warfare any time at his owne cost And No man that warreth entangleth himselfe with the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a souldier And God saith of thē by the Prophet Esay I haue set watchmen vpon thy walls O Ierusalem which all the day all the night continually shall not cease The watchmen and warriours therefore of the Lord the keepers of his Church the conquerours of his enimies the spoylers of the Idumaeans the consumers of Antichrist Antichristian impes are Ministers of his word Pastors Teachers who to please him by whom they are chosen souldiers should not be entangled with the affaires of this life to discharge their dutie should bee sent forth and kept on publike cost to preserue their flocke should watch day and night continually over it The lesse marvaile is it if in our English Churches Antichrist and Edom be not consumed yet nay if they attempt to consume vs if by Popish policies by superstitious tokens by blasphemous writings by traiterous libels and conspiracies they vndermine our state if they take craftie counsaile against the people of God say Let vs possesse his habitatiōs by inheritance if they look for a day whē they may cry once againe rase it rase it to the foundation thereof in a word if they range through the land like woolues suck the bloud of sheep lambs sith the shepheards faile the watchm●…n are asleepe the warriours doe not fight through want somewhere of will somewhere of abilitie Of wil where they entangle themselues with such affaires as draw them f●…om their warfare and are not content to bee watchmen in Ierusalem but they must haue a watchmanship in Caesarea too or if they haue one stocke alone y●…t doe not feed it but take their ease in Sion Of abilitie where there is not sufficient provisiō for training of men to make them good souldiours nor mainetenance sufficient to finde them being trained that setting all other cares of life apart they may attend their charge wholly To them here amongst vs who through want of will are backeward in this service of the Lord God of Hoasts so much hath

and the want of the preaching of the word is famine And reason in the mouth of the Poet hath taught vs that it is a most miserable thing to die with hunger Wherefore in this case it belongeth to Maisters who haue charge care of servants Pastors of flockes Magistrates of people to see that they be not negligent in their duty and that their hande be not deepe in this iniquity and that they be not defiled with the bloud of soules which Christ hath redeemed with his precious bloud Oh that they would at length consider wisely of it And here should I speake to the Magistrate of the city if hee were present in that matter which hath beene often moved vnto him for the provision for such as might minister the word vnto them which in the Apostles iudgement is necessary No man at any time goeth to warre on his own charges And if this city can be content to set out souldiers for the prince will they not be perswaded to furnish souldiers against Sathan the enimy of their souls against whom they are continually to striue The example of Cambridge hath beene proposed vnto them but if they were not worse then them of Achaia and the Barbarians of Macedonia they would bee moved to do somewhat herein these were content to sende reliefe to the Saints at Ierusalem but they will not succour such as are amongst them which are not troubled with bodily but spirituall hunger VERSE 15. 16. 15 For the dayof the Lord is neere vpon all the heathen as thou hast done it shal be done vnto thee They reward shall returne vpon thine head 16 When you haue drunke vpon mine holy mountaine al the heathen shall drinke continually yea they shall drink swallow vp and they shall be as though they had not beene THE thoughts and affections of mans heart are so corrupt froward that he is seldome by commaundement restrained from evill vnlesse there bee adioined to the breach of the commaundement somepunishment Neither are we alwaies moved therwith all especially if we know or bee perswaded that that which is threatned be farre of For it befalleth very often that the pleasant lust and pleasure of sinne for a season overweyeth the feare which wee should conceiue of the punishment which is yet to come according to that of the wise man Because sentence against an evill worke is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe evill The Prophet waying this thought it a small thing to teach vs by the wickednesse of the Idumeans that we should fall after the same maner of sinne therefore putteth vs also in mind of the punishment which was to light on the vngodly Which also hee doth the rather to comfort the godly for so grievous are the calamities which for the present time the best are both to see and feele that vnlesse they went into the sanctuarie of the LORD to see the end of these men whom GOD hath set in slipperie places it must needes fal out that their seet should slip and their goings slide Wherefore to raise vp the spirite which striueth against the flesh and to beate downe the flesh which fighteth against the spirit the Lord saith by the Prohhet for the daie c. By the daie of the Lord is meant the time of the Lords iudgement that is the time which hee hath appointed to execute iudgement By the heathen are meant the nations set against the Iewes As were the Philistins Tyrians Medes Babylonians c. and such as were mentioned Ieremie 25. where the matter which is here handled generally is more fully in particular opened And as Edom is amongst them there counted so here hauing in the former verse opened the threat against a lenimies in the verse following is He namely mentioned Howbeit least the Iewes should in the meane season be discouraged broken with the manifold miseries which they abode hee sheweth that their enimies should suffer farre greater and this also to their greater comfort is vttered in GODS person On my mountaine Afflictions by a Metaphor are here called a drinking of strong drinke as of wine because that as mē by taking more thē enough become drunke so that their heads wax giddy their bodies distempred c. some so disquieted that they die of it So men by suffering afflictions become astonished their bodies disordered c. The meaning then is this that though they endured for a while many and sundry miseries yet should their enimies feele far greater for it is said of the godly that they should drinke on his holy mountaine But the heathen continually implying that they should abide this punishment for a time but the enimies forever Againe that they should drinke but the other should drinke and swallow vp and bee as though they had not beene Which difference is yet more fully declared by Ieremie Take a cup stagger wax mad vomit yet of the Iewes which were carried captiue to Babylon he saith that after 70 yeares they should be delivered Wee are to note that sundry temporall things in the old Testament are shadowes of things eternall Noah his arke which was borne vp by the waters signified the Church borne vp and saved by that which baptisme representeth the punishment of Sodome figured the eternall fire The land of Canaan whereinto Io shua brought the Israelites was a signe of the kingdome of heaven wherevnto wee are brought through the wildernesse of this life by Iesus Christ. So this chastisement for the time of his children and continuall drinking of the vngodly are figures of the short correction which GOD will lay on his children and the most dreadfull and eternall punishment which shall fall on the head of the vngodly For the mountaine signifieth the Church the Iewes the godly their drinking afflictions The heathen all vngodly their continual drinking their eternall punishment their swallowing c their torments most grievous Which though we see partly accōplished in this life yet shall it more be seene in the life to come For whē the godly haue a little suffred here they shall haue all teares wiped from their eies and the vngodly shal drinke and swallow c that is suffer endlesse and vnspeakeable torments Here out are there many things to be observed 1 Cause of these punishments For respecting the sinnes in the former verses 2 Time when neere 3 Equitie of the punishment as thou hast done to them 4 Freedome of the godly when you haue drunke 5 Grievousnes of the punishment continually 6 By way of the Metaphor of drinking the filthinesse of drunkennes 1 The iniquities which the Idumeans wrought against the Iewes were they that provoked this dreadfull vengeance And because the heathen were like vnto them they are to be punished also in the like manner The sinnes of the Idumeans consisted as hath been before declared in reioycing at the affliction of their brethren in speaking

him or withdraweth him from sinne Some saue with feare pulling them out the fire of Iude. Which is the dutie of every Christian man For that is a question worthy of Cain am●… the keeper of my brother There should bee such a care in vs towards our brethren as was in Ioseph who not onely dealt with his father for them but counselled thē not to fall out by the way Would to GOD we had many Iosephs and few Cains who when they haue murthered their brethren demand whether they are their keepers Now if this bee required of all how much more of Ministers into whose mouth the word of salvatiō is put For which cause Timothie is expresly warned to continue in exhortation c. for so hee should saue himselfe and his hearers ... if he doe not exhort c. and continue therein he is no saviour but a destroyer The condition of his owne salvation is this if thou doe thus thou shalt saue thy selfe else not Let thē then which are in that place which Timothie was in consider to what they are called even to teach and exhort that not only all in generall but every particular wicked man As GOD giveth in commandement to his Prophet If thou tell the wicked man if not his blood shall be required at thy hand What then shall become of such watchmen as either cannot or doe not warne of the vnlearned that can only read and not teach of dumbe dogges that cannot barke non residents who teach not at all though they preach their Quarter sermons yet are not such as performe the commandement of Paul to cōtinue But such Shepheards shal haue their portiō with goats and not with the sheepe Both the blind and the blind guid shall fall into the ditch They also who are to bee taught are here to leatne their duty For if none can be saved but such as cal vpon the name of the Lord and none can cal on him that beleeue not and none can beleeue vnlesse they heare it is evident that if we will bee saved wee must heare 2. Kin. g 4. The Sunamite telleth her husband that shee would go to the mā of GOD he asketh her what she wil doe seeing it was neither the sabaoth nor new moone Whereby we gather that it was the vse of this good womā at such time to resort to Carmel where the Prophets did then vse to instruct the people in faith religion There be few women amongst vs like this Sunamite she went certaine miles these wil not walk a few paces to heare the same doctrine which shee learned As for the men of this Citie neither will they take the paines to come I would they did provide that the mā of GOD might come to thē or that there were in thē that loue to Gods Ministers which was in this woman who provided for Elizeus a chamber a bed c. that whē he came that way he might come in and abide there It was said that this matter was in good forwardnesse but is hindred if so be it be I must say as Paul O yee foolish Galathians who hath bewitched you that having begun in the spirit you would now be made perfect by the flesh made you such account of your hogges that for them you request Christ to depart from your coasts Wee should here speake of the second effect of GODS word whereby it is a savour of death in them that perish whē it is said they shal iudge Esau. But of this hath beene spoken heretofore It remaineth then to say somewhat of the last point which is of Gods kingdome whereof I need not speake because wee are taught dayly in our petition to say thy kingdome come Only consider what a happines it is to be of that kingdome If the Queen of Saba thought Solomons servants happy that had him to rule them how much more they which haue a greater then Solomon Christ Iesus the Lord of Lords and king of kings Wherefore we are willingly to submit ourselues to his commandements GOD forbid any of vs should say why should this man raigne over vs No greater selicitie then to bee vnder his gracious peaceable and righteous governement For if wee feele some tast of comfort in the government of Q. Elizabeth what and how great shall wee enioy vnder him Which the Lord in goodnes make vs partakers of Amen FINIS A SERMON VPON PART OF THE eighteenth Psalme PREACHED TO THE PVBLIKE assembly of Scholers in the Vniversity of Oxford the last day of August 1586. BY JOHN RAINOLDES Vpon occasion of their meeting to giue thankes to God for the detection and apprehension of Traitours who wickedly conspired against the Queenes Maiestie and the state of the Realme PSAL. 20. 6. Now know I that the Lord doth saue his annointed doth heare him out of his holy heavens by excellent strength the safegard of his right hand Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes 1613. IOHN RAINOLDS TO THE REAder grace and peace in Christ. THE reasons that moved mee good Christian Reader to preach this short Sermon vpon shorter warning then gladlie I would haue prevailed with me to set it downe in writing also at more leasure and to publish it For both the godly subiects may be stirred vp thereby to greater thankefulnes for the manifolde blessings that God by her Maiesties meanes and in her safety hath bestowed vpon vs and the discontented may be put in minde to content thēselues with the w●…ters of Shiloah albeit running softly least the great and mighty waters of the River goe over all their bankes breake into Iuda and overflow it The former whereof I know that I cannot be deceived in because raine and snow do not fal in vaine vpon fruitful ground In the latter I hope I shall not altogither Vnlesse with Religion both wit and reason haue forsaken them that they care as little for honestly as for piety for profit as for honesty For what can they looke for at the hands of foreiners though knit in never so strait confederacie with them ioined in profession of the same faith or perfidiousnes rather of the falsly named Catholike religiō more then the Iews had of the Assyrians By whom for all their altar erected to the patterne of the Assyrian at Damascus they were often grievously vexed and pilled When the citizens of Papia in Italie were at dissension by reason of the faction betweene the G●…lphes the Gibellines the Gibellines procured a favorer of theirs called Facinus Canis to come and assist thē with a power of men vpon agreement and covenant that hee should haue the goods of the Guelohes for his pay But he being come once into the city with his men of warre spared neither of them his souldiours would be serued Wherof when the Gibellines did complaine vnto him saying that their goods too were spoiled against agreemēt he answered that themselues were Gibellines and shoulde be safe