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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-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

THE PROPHECIE OF OBADIAH OPENED AND APPLYED IN SVNDRY LEARNED AND GRACIOVS SERMONS PREACHED at ALL-HALLOWES and St MARIES in OXFORD BY THAT FAMOVS AND IVDICIous Divine JOHN 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. AT OXFORD Printed by Joseph Barnes 1613. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL my Reverend and right worthy friend Mr D. AIRAY Provost of the Queenes College in Oxford Grace and Peace RIght Worshipfull whom I reverence and loue in the Lord Iesus The gifts and graces of this humble and holy religious and iudicious man of God were so glorious and resplendent in the eies of al that could discerne the beautie or prize the value of such things that he needs not my candle to light his sunne nor any pen or stile of mine to make new Impressions of honour and loue in the hearts of them that knewe him Only I say the Lord had powred the precious Spicknard of his Spirit vpon his head filling his mind with spirituall vnderstanding in heavenly things and the virtue and vigour thereof had lok'd down into his heart giuing him both seeling and fruit of that hee vnderstood Iacobs body was never embalmed with so sweet 〈◊〉 as this mans name and memory is seasoned with the sauour of his virtues ever sha●…l be honoured with variety of fresh praises His breast was as a treasurie for the repaire of the Temple and building vp of Ierusalem It was also as an Armory for the ruine of the Synagogue of ●…athan and rasing of Babel even to the ground And whereas Counsell and strength are for the warre even in fighting the Lords bat tels he Lord by his wisdome taught his hands to fight and his fingers to warre and though his flesh were not of brasse yet did the Lord so strengthē his arme that he was able to bend to draw to breake even a bow of ste●…le He was a chosen shaft of the Lords quiuer yea his little Quiuer was full of chosen shafts and keene arrowes to wound the hearts of the Kings enimies In briefe he was a Iohn and as Iohn was that is a burning and a shining campe wasting his owne oyle lampe and life that his light might be continued for the comfort of others that reioyced in his light To which purpose hee being dead yet speaketh his lanterne being brokē his light yet shineth and though his vine be cut downe yet his wine yet smelleth as the wine of Lebanon I cannot deny but hauing some mo numents of his learned and painef●…ll 〈◊〉 along time lying by me I haue sometimes lighted my candle at his torch stored my selfe of his treasure refreshed my soule with his sweet wine rcioiced to heare his dead lett●…r speake in the power of his owne spirit voice vnto me But after long waiting if by any other means rather then mine own they might be published for a more common good and finding by diligent inquirie no hope no helpe tēding he evnto I could no longer offer such hard measure to such as hunger and thirst after good things as to eat my morsels alone but to bring forth my provision of another mans cost indeed yet not without some labour an●… ca●…e of mine owne to prepare the table s●… things in some order before thē Herevnto I was the ra●…her induced and drawne by his owne both opinion and practise and that concerning one of these sermons vpon this Pro●…het Obadaiah holding it a withholding of goods from the owner thereof if hauing any thing of speciall vse we keepe it backe frō them that need it such Needers being indeed and in his accompt the true owners of it When the 4 leapers had found in the campe of the Aramites meate and drinke to refresh them gold silver to enrich them and rayment to cloth them they tooke what sufficed for present necessity and hid the rest as provision against further extremity yet remembring at length other mens penu●…y in their plentie other mens necessities in their superfluities we doe not wel say they this day is a day of good tydings wee hold our peace if we tarry till day light some mischiefe will come vpon vs now therefore come let vs goe and tell the kings houshold so reckoning that Needers were owners of that which thēselues did possesse Me thought when I considered this story it was marvai●…ous pregnant for my purpose I haue beene refreshed well satisfied my selfe with these Lectures as with spirituall provision repast and a long time I haue hid them and kept thē from publike view Certainely I doe not well this is a day of good tydings this a message of glad tydings of the gospel by a messenger whose very feet were beautifull in the house of God and yet I hold my peace if I stay any longer I may rather feare some crosse then find any comfort in such stay What then I will forbeare no longer but now at length resolue to make others partners in my gaine and partakers of my ioy And therefore Right Worsh. my worthy and much respected friend I am bold evē first of all to present these glad tidings vnto you as a bunch of grapes fallen frō that vine whose very shadow was a shelter and sweet refreshing vnto many which grew sometimes in that soyl brought forth his sweet fruit in due season where now you are the cheefe husbandman It will doe you good I knowe to commune once againe with your neerest dearest friend Read him obserue him you shall acknowledge his spirit and speech his gracious wisdome his marvailous learning his rare and exquisite gift of interpretation his intire and sound iudgement for observation his faithfulnesse and conscionablenesse in serious discreet sound explication Now for my selfe Right Wor ●…ever acknowledge su●…h a debt of duty and loue into whi●…h you many great ●…avours haue drawne me a that vnl●…sse thankfull acknowledgement may bee taken in part of payment shall yet run vpō the skore st●…ll My hope is though ●…runne in debt of this na●…ure yet shall not come in any g●…eat danger seeing your favourable acceptance of this or a●…y other the poorest pledge of my loue may forthwi●…h seale mean acquittance prevent a●…l f●…ther greevance in this kind And so reioicing in your welfare praising God for your faithfull wise provident and religious government in th●…t College whereof being once a member must ever bee mindfull as a ch●…ld of h●…s Nurse or sonne of his Mother I commend you to the provident protection gracious direction of God Almighty Bunbury in Ch●…shire Iuly 19. 1613. Your VVorsh●…ps ever assured in all Christi●…n affection VV. HINDE THE PROPHECIE OF OBADIAH OBADIAH 1. 1 The vision of OBADIAH Thus saith the Lord God against Edom we haue heard a rumor from the Lord an Ambassadour is sent

come hither So sure thought they them selues that though there were none to defend it but blind and lame yet were they safe enough yet behold GOD brought them downe and that which before was the strongest against David became the strongest for him The king of Babylon who said hee would ascend vp and set his seat by the st●…rres receaued this word from the Lord How art thou fallen thou Luc●…fer sonne of the morning Which place many vnskilfully apply to the fall of the Prince of darknesse but that name is in no place of Scripture giuen him but is here attributed to the king of Babylon who shone as the morning starre in beautie and glory So that those which before marvailed at his power did after wonder at his f●…ll Tyrus shone as a Cherub in the garden of Eden but when he had defiled his sanctification by the multitude of his iniquities it was threatned him by Ezechiel that he should be cast to the ground that a fire from the midst of him should devoure him and that hee should be brought to ashes in the sight of all that beheld him It seemed impossible to the Iewes whé our Saviour told them thereof that the glory of Ierusalem should be brought downe for which cause it was laid against Stephen as an especiall matter that he should say that CHRIST would destroy that place yet was not that generation passed before it was made an heape of stones the temple rased and not one stone left standing on another And what shall I speake of the latter Babylon which in like sort persecuted the faithfull Christians as the other did the faithful Iewes How did she lift vp her self and saie who shall bring me downe Who was worshipped as a goddesse and the citie called Vrbs aterna as appeareth by writers grounding themselues with all on that oracle of the Poet Imperium sine fine dedi Was it not taken burnt and laid wast by t●…e Gothes 〈◊〉 By which examples of the Iebusites the kings of Babylon ●…d Tyrus the cities of Ierusalem and Rome we see this which is spoken by the Prophet of the Idumeans to be verisied in all them that follow the pride of the Idumeans And to come nearer home to the state of thē that represent the heart of the Idumeans and desire to rase Ierusalem even to the ground foundation I meane to the state of the Papacie in which is revived the Image of the former beast but much more liuely resembling not only the cruelty but the pride also of Edom for neither the Iebusites nor kings of Babylon or Tyrus nor Iewes come so neere as they being partakers with vs of the same Sacrament baptized evē as we no otherwise then as the Idumeans were circum●…ised as well as the Israelites But as they notwithstanding the signe of circumcision were chiefe enimies vnto Syon even so the state of the Papacy notwithstanding the sacrament of baptisme are chiefe enimies to the truth of the gospell of Christ which proceeded out of Syon For these also haue their dwelling in the clefts of the rocks perswading themselues that that is the rock on which the Church of GOD is built making their brags by reason of their power league with so mighty Potentats that they cānot be moved lifting vp their nests as an Eagle as the Emperor whose ensigne is the Eagle the sp●… Eagle for that hee was Emperour of Constantinople and Rome but spoyled of both for that the Pope hath deprived him of one even as the Turke hath done of the other He hath lift vp his nest to the stars not said in his heart but proclaimed by written bookes and shamelesse libels cast abroad among vs that by reason of his flourishing estate and great power hee can not be brought low Wherein they haue shewed greater arrogance then ever the Idumeans did in that prophesie Imperium sine fine dedi Aquinas to proue the stability of the papacie alleadgeth the Prophecie of Daniel 2. chapter where having spoken of the foure kingdomes comming to the last which should destroy the other and endure for ever he applyeth it to Christs kingdome but so that it belongeth to the Papacie adding if they feed the flocke Now for that they hold that it cannot faile in doctrine they conclude that the estate of the popedome must endure for ever according to the words of that prophecie I stand not to shew howe true the former parte is that Rome should destroy the other kingdomes but on that that he saith it shal bee eternall Which blasphemie is as great as that which he vttered in the former chapter applying to the Pope that which is spoken of our Savi our of his fulnesse we haue all received But though hereby they may say as great B●…bylon I sit as a Queene and shall see no sorrowes yet the mighty Angell tooke a stone like a milstone and cast it into the sea and said with such violence shall the great city Babylon bee cast and shall be found no more But the maintainers of them say that this cannot be by reason of the flourishing estate of the Papacie in Rome which hath so mighty friends and hath beene of so long continuance But let them remember that Nineveh had beene a people of many generations that the Edomites were of greater standing For it is scarse 500. yeares passed since the vsurped authority over kings and princes and the whole church began but not 800. since the Bishop of Rome set himselfe against the Emperour not 1000. since hee first claimed authoritie over the Bishops of Constantinople which is a lesse time then Edom flourished for we read that there raigned 8. kings in Edom before there was a king over the children of Israel that is before the governement of Moses So then they flourished til the daies of this Prophet even no lesse then 1200. yeares neither were they thē straight extinguished for they lived to see the ruine of the second temple as we finde in Iosephus Wherfore let vs assure ourselues that though they say who shall bring vs downe yet in due time this shall be verified to them also for so shal it be to al that haue said in the pride of their heart c. And that which hath beene said of the state of the Papacie extendeth also to the doctrine For that in as great arrogancie of spirit they magnifie their workes making their nests amōg the starres claiming everlasting glory as a reward of their deeds For so the Remish notes say that eternall ioy is a merit least we should not know by those generall tearmes how basely they thinke of GODS mercy how prowdly of their owne workes they expound themselues and say that it is as a stipend answering in weight time to the worke Thē which what could be said more grossely or prophane that the workes of man shoulde answere to eternall ioie

abstaine frō such sinnes which then shall be revealed to the confusion of those that haue committed them Let vs not flatter our selues with long daies hoping the punishment shall be deferred least that befal vs which is reported of the young man in the 7. of the Proverbs whom the har●… with her craft caused to yeeld telling him that her husband was not at home but was gone a farre iourney so he was entised with her flattering lips followed her straight waies as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter and as one fettered to the instruction of fooles till a dart strooke through his liver Christ is a prince which indeed is gone into a farre countrey yet he looketh that his talents which he hath left behind him be imployed till he come And hee is not gon so farre but that he will come on the sodaine againe happy is that servant whom when he commeth he shall find doing his dutie 3 The Equitie which the Lord wil vse in this iudgement is declared when it is said as thou hast done it shal be done to thee thy reward shall returne vpon thy head ●…eason plainely sheweth that the punishment should ●…e equall to the faults as the ancient laws of the Romās which they received from the Grecians haue plainely ●…eclared but more evidently in the lawes of the Hebrewes wherein we must needs thinke that equitie appeared most cleare The law commanded a tooth for a rooth c. as he hath done so let it be done to him Adonibesek acknowledged this for a iust iudgement even by the light of nature when hee confessed when the thumbs of his seet and hands were cut of that GOD had rewarded him for that he had caused 70. kings having their thumbs cut of to gather scrappes vnder his table Absolon killed Amnon his brother and was not he himselfe slaine Ioab slew Abner and Amasa but hee himselfe was slaine whilst hee laid hold on the hornes of the Altar But what speake I of severall men seeing this equitie of Gods iudgement shineth most cleere in Empyres and kingdomes The Assyrians Macedonians Babylonians c. who as they had spoiled many nations so were they thēselues also spoiled but most notable in Rome who in few yeares was so often sacked spoyled by the Gothes Vandals c. In our daies we haue seene that Abbaies and Monkeries which had made havocke of Churches and their patrimonie how that GOD had taken vengeance of them spoiled them also Now seeing the iudgement is one where sinne is one let such take heed as possesse the goods of the Church by their punishment least that these goods so gotten as a canker consume the rest Woe to thee saith the Prophet that spoilest and was not sp●…d when tho●… ceasest thou also shalt be spoiled Looke with what measure we meat with the sa●…e measure shall we be measured to His iniquitie is his owne and no other shall returne vpon his owne head But here we must beware that wee condemne not GODS punishment if the punishment seeme greater thē the offences in that they are to bee punished continually which haue sinned but for a time for the circumstances besides encrease the greatnes of the fault I will stand but on one which is the person against whom the offence is committed It is of Babylon giue her double according to her sinne How agreeth this Double punishment and yet according to the sinne Forsooth because an offence against the godly is two fold greater then that against another Semei cursed David it had not beene death towards another but because it was against the Lords annointed he was iust ly slaine by Solomon Now if the punishment of traiterous words against a temporall Prince rightfully deserue a temporall death doe not traiterous words against an eternall king deserue eternall punishment Wherefore seeing they haue offended the Maiestie of him that is infinite it is reason that their punishment should be in time infinite that so some waie the proportion may be answered The foundations of those parts of doctrine and instruction which hitherto haue beene opened are yet advanced higher in the 16 verse by these two points 1 That the godly are afflicted in this life for a while in measure 2 That the punishment of the wicked is without measure or end But before I enter into the declaration hereof I will note the harme which proceedeth of excessiue drinking which the Prophet setteth here before our eies when hee calleth afflictions and punishments by the name of drincking for thereby are we taught that as men oppressed with griefe haue their hearts troubled their bodies distempered their spirits lāguishing their life shortned c. so the excesse of drinking weakeneth also the body endangereth the soule draweth on many diseases c. Yea many goe so farre that they even quaffe vp their death with it As it is reported that Alexander proposing a reward to him that could drinke most there were 21 presently killed thereby he which got the victory died within three days after And although I haue lesse cause to feare this vice in Christian men much lesse in Englishmen least of all in Oxford yet the great plentie of wine sellers lately encreased causeth me to dread lest by degrees we come vnto it Wherefore let vs consider in this Metaphor of drinking and swallowing vp that not only the great afflictions of this present life are signified but also the dreadfull and endlesse torments of the life to come Which yet is not so meant as though the very drinking were condemned For wine was created of GOD to cheere the heart of man not of the evill man alone but of the good likewise as GOD hath made his sunne to shine not only on the good but on the bad also And although in the law the high Priest were forbid to drink wine when he entred into the tabernacle of the cōgregation that hee might put a difference betweene the holy and the vnholy the cleane and the vncleane c. yet in the New testament where the ceremonies being abolished the things only remaine hereby sobrietie and temperance is commanded vs. Wherefore Paul counselled Timothy to refraine from drinking water to vse a little wine for his stomacke wherefore the moderate vse of wine is lawfull but to vse it immoderately brin geth drunkennesse Wherefore Paul willeth vs not to be drunke with wine wherein is excesse The word which the Apostle there vseth is more forcible expressing the desperate estate of drunkennesse whom ●…afetie it selfe can s●…se saue For by it wee are not brought to most vnseemly deeds as that of ●…oah and wicked as that of Lot but more grievous also if they may bee which the wise man most liuely hath expressed To whome is woe to whom is sorrow to whom is strife to whom is mur●…uring to whom are wounds without cause and to whom is the rednesse of the eyes Even to them