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A10342	A sermon vpon part of the prophesie of Obadiah touching the destruction, as of Idumæans, so of Papists; and meanes whereby it must be wrought: preached at Saint Maries in Oxford by Iohn Rainoldes, on the 28. of October last. 1584.	Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.	1584 (1584)	STC 20623; ESTC S106047	14,278	33

¶ A Sermon vpon part of the Prophesie of Obadiah Touching the destruction as of Idumaeans so of Papists and meanes whereby it must be wrought Preached at Saint Maries in Oxford by Iohn Rainoldes on the 28. of October last 1584. Dan. 9. 17. Heare O our God the prayer of thy seruant and his supplications and cause thy face to shine vpon thy Sanctuarie that lieth wast for the Lordes sake Printed 1584. ❧ Iohn Rainoldes wisheth grace and peace in Iesu Christ to the Christian Reader WEe are commaunded by a wise Prince or rather by the Prince of Princes not to withholde good from the owners thereof when it is in the power of our hande to doe it The owners of anye good are they called who stand in neede of it For God hath made men stewardes of his graces not all to serue themselues but eche to helpe others in whatsoeuer they may Wherefore hauing taken in hande the exposition of Obadiah the Prophet and preached so on parte of him as I thought meetest for the place and time since the Parliament was summoned being requested to pen and publish that Sermon by some who thought it needful for more then were present I coulde not withhold my simple helpe therin from the owners of it my leysure notes seruing me to doo it And I pray God that they for whose sakes it is chiefly done withholde not goodes neither from the owners of them Sure vnlesse the world do blind thē they will not what shall it auayle them to winne the whole world lose their owne soules When Amasias king of Iuda had hired an army of Israel for an hundred talents of siluer to goe with him against Edom a man of God warned him not to let the army of Israel goe with him for the Lord is not with Israell How shall we doo then for the hundred talents said Amasias which I haue giuen them The man of God answered the Lord is able to giue thee more thē that The Lord is the same now that he was euer as highly offended with vnlawfull helpes which we seeke to gayne by as able to giue vs more then they cost vs euen whom they cost most But if he would not yet in his loue is life And better is a little with a good conscience then the richest state of the wicked and mighty The time wil come when men shal feele it Farewell good Christian Reader and cōmend the cause of the Church I beseech thee to God by thy prayers to Gods Lieuetenants by such meanes as he shall blesse thee with that it may finde fauour in the eies of the Parliament and her gratious Maiestie to the glory of the highest the saluation of the chosen and the securitie of the State From Corpus Christi College in Oxford Nouemb. 22. 1584. It is written in the Prophesie of OBADIAH the fifth and sixth verses 5 If theeues had come vnto thee if robbers by night how art thou destroyed Would they not haue stollen that which were inough for them If grape-gathers had come vnto thee would they not haue left some grapes 6 Howe are the thinges of Esau sought out his secret things are searched THE ruine and destruction of the Idumaeans is set forth by the spirit of God in this prophecie for the instruction and comfort of the Israelites to assure them that God will execute iustice and iudgement on their enimies in the day of his visitation when he wil saue them In the former verses as I haue shewed already the Prophet declared the sentence of the Lorde against the Idumaeans that they should be destroyed the witnesses therof himselfe other Prophets who heard it from the Lord the meanes that he would work by the warriours rising vp against thē S. Peter aduertising the Iewes the Proselytes that they should receiue the gift of the holy ghost if they repented turned to Christ for to you saith hee is the promise made and to your children and to all thē that shal be long hereafter euen to as many as the Lord our God shall call the same in like sort may I say vnto you fathers and brethren touching this promise of bringing your enemies to vtter ruine and destruction For God said to Abrahā I wil blesse thē that blesse thee I will curse them that curse thee meaning that hee would make a perfect league with him bee at peace with his friends at war with his enemies But the league and couenant which God made with Abraham he made with Abraham his seed And the seed of Abraham are all faithfull Christians To vs all therefore is that promise made that God will blesse our friends and will curse our enemies Moreouer his particuler curse plague ensuing it vpon y e Idumaeās is a patterne of that which shall fall on such as treade in their steps For the punishment of the Iewes who lusted after euill things is threatned to the Gentiles if they lust as the Iewes did and if yee bee partakers of the sinnes of Babylon ye shal receiue of her plagues Now amōgst the enemies of the faithful Christians others doe more resēble the Philistines or Ammonites or Moabites or Amalekites or Cananites or Assyrians there are none liker to the Idumaeans then are the Papistes as it hath been shewed The Idumaeans borne according to the flesh of the seed of Abraham the Papists by of spring come of Christian parents The Idumaeans circumcised as children of the couenāt the Papistes baptised in the same that we be The Idumaeans serued not the God of their fathers according to the law neither do the Papists in spirit truth after the Gospel The Idumaeans persecuted the Israelites to death vexed thē with al crueltie the Papists haue butchered the godly with massacres and made thēselues drūkē with y e blood of saints Wherefore the spirite of the Lord assureth vs that the Papists shalbe cōsumed in his wrath whē it shall burne sodeinly and as they haue folowed the factes of the Idumaeans so they shall feele their punishmentes I speake not herein of all that are Papists as neither did the Prophet of al Idumaeās For the remnant of Edom shal inherite with Israel and Papistes with vs as many as shall seeke him whose name is called vpon them which God graunt they may doe by faith in his mercy that Papistes may liue and papistrie may die But I speake of all who flubbornly per sist in the Popish heresies In whō shal bee fulfilled the Apostles prophesie touching the man of sinne the Lorde shall cōsume him 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 An tichrist If theeues had come vnto thee if robbers by night how art thou destroyed would they not haue stollē that which were enough for them If Grape gatherers had come vnto thee would they

of Pastours Teachers of the Church were husbanded in such sort to the Lordes aduauntage that we need not feare his sentence of y t vineyard m that he wil let it out to other husbandmen Then should not so many raw vntrained souldiours receiue the Lords pay who doo him small seruice in the day of battaile And yet there were lesse cause to complaine hereof if they who bee trayned were procured to serue him But the imprest money wages due to thē the liuings I mean appointed for their maintenāce are so impaired minished that being not able therwith to finde themselues in souldiourlike state they refuse the calling or if they vndertake it they are distracted from it with cares how to supply their need Wherby it cōmeth to passe that n y t Leuites flying ech into his land for lack of their portions the house of God is forsaken And to fill their roomes others are takē who wil be hired for least not according to the Prouerbe Best is best cheape but to the cōmon practise Best cheape is best Who though not to serue the calues of Dan and Bethel yet are made Priestes as those by Ieroboam o of peeces of the people not of the sonnes of Leui. Who if they had the grace p should say I am no Prophet I am a husbandman and returne to that trade which their friendes haue taught them Who are not endued with necessary gifts for the prophets duty and therefore howsoeuer men haue called them to it God hath not called them For whom God calleth vnto anie function them endueth he with giftes to performe it as Bezaleel to make his taberbernacle Ieremie to doo his message the Apostles to preach the Gospel So the flock of Christ is desolate of shepheards and his campe of souldiours while such haue the places as cannot strengthen the weake heale the sicke binde vp the broken nor destroy his enemies with the two edged sworde defend his subiectes A great cause here-of are Patrones of benefices For wheras the interest of choosing the Pastor belonging of old time to the Congregation is now conueyed to them because their predecessours did benefit the Church some way and therefore were put in trust as Patrones of it they a number of them do deale with the matter as Polymestor did with Polydore that is as euill gardians doo with their wardes and turne their patronage into pillage The lust of their hartes hath defiled their handes with the sacriledge of Acan to take gold siluer and Babylonish garments of the spoiles of Iericho consecrated to God Or if not with so foule sacrilege as his was because their Predecessours gaue some of it perhaps yet w t the sacrilege of Ananias Sapphira yea though themselues had giuē it If they thinke to couer their profane dealing with Acans conueyance by hyding the pray or to wash their handes with Pilates pretense that they are giltlesse of it they gaue y ● aduowsōs freely to friends or seruants they deceiue thēselues For God is not mocked And he wil finde thē out in a day when they looke not for him and in an houre that they are not ware of bring them to shame with more dreadfull punishmēt then either he did Acan or Ananias Sapphira Wherfore I hartely beseech the young Gentlemen that be here present all that are or shalbe Patrones hereafter in a religious reuerence and feare of the Lord to keepe themselues pure frō this abomination At least to remember the miserable ende of Richard the vsurper who beeing made Protector of the King and Realme got the realme himself robbed the King of it That if they deeme their patronage to be meerely ciuil the goods of benefices to be as common mens not sacred to the Lord yet being made Protectors therof of y ● Pastors they follow not his fault whose ende they detest Though the very truth is which I wish they weigh too that the Churches goods allotted to the maintenance of Pastors teachers are not profane but sacred and therefore the sinne of them who purloyne them is sacrilege not theft wherein God is spoyled as himself pronounceth Will a man spoile God that ye doo spoile me And ye say wherin doo we spoile thee in tithes offerings Howbeit if church-liuings were impouerished by none but by Patrones the case were not so euill because it is against the law But they are distressed also beside other pensiōs incōbrances by Appropriatiōs as y e lawyers term thē or as they are named commonly impropriations Whereof the condition is the more grieuous for that in many parishes there is not a Vicar well sufficiently indowed to doe diuine seruice instruct the people and keep hospitality which yet the law cōmādeth if it were obeied Iosias in thē eighth yere of his raigne began to seek the God of his father Dauid in the twelfth yeere he began to purge Iuda and Ierusalem from the hye places and the groues and the grauen images and the molten and in the eyghteenth yeere hee sent Saphan and others to repayre the house of the Lord his God Reformations of disorders cannot be made al at once chiefly when the Church hath of long time beene ouergrowen with them as then it had vnder idolatry and hath with vs vnder Popery King Henry the eight a Prince of noble memorie began to sett foorth the holy worde of God And his sonne another Iosias had he liued began to purge England from Images and Masses and Massing-altars and superstitions I doubt not but our gratious Queene and soueraine Lady desireth in the steppes of her father and brother to adde this vnto them that workemen be maintained for repairing of the Church But it lieth not in her Highnes alone to bring it to effect the Lordes and the Commons haue a stroke in it Wherefore seeing now a Parliament is sūmoned to be helde shortly let vs desire God in humblenes of spirit to encline their hearts that although it be with losse of some part of their owne commodities yet they will folow k the zeale of the Israelites for the tabernacle of assembly And as the religious professours of the truth haue shewed that Church-liuinges appropriated to others should in cōscience finde the Pastors of the Church so God graunt that they who haue the authority may see it with a single eye and bring it to passe with an vpright hand Martin Bucer in his godly requestes and aduises presented to King Edward treating of skilful Pastors to be ordained throughout the realme saith that their maintenance ought to be required of them who receiue the profits of the parishes by appropriation or any other way Bishop Pilkinton vpon Aggaeus complayning that the Pope robbed parishes to feed his moonkes wisheth that the Gospell may restore that iustly which he tooke