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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

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

this word Nothing for assurance of building but this rocke He is like to a wise man that built his house on a rocke who heareth the wordes of Chr●…st and keepeth them and one is our master e ven he And for the teachers goe and teach those things whi●…h I haue spoken This is Christ his lesson both to hearer and teacher and his promise we see is tyed only to this word This is the ground whereon wee must build the house that must not be shaken this is the food of life whereby the children of God must be fed What ever ground of Fathers decrees traditions coū cels or ought else 〈◊〉 it is but ●…and which will not hold our building only hereto we must sticke this must be our only Rocke and staie In the first booke of the kings mention is made of a man of God who was sent to preach against the Idolatrie at Bethel He came thither did the message crying out against the altar according vnto the word of the Lord. The king first threatned him and after allured him to come and dine with him and receiue a reward But the man of GOD answered the king that though he would giue him half●… his house he would not for that hee had Received worde of the Lord against that When he was departed from the king there meeteth him an old Prophet he willeth him to come home and eat bread with him he denyeth telling him what word he had received of the Lord. The old Prophet replyeth that he was a Prophet also and that an angell had spoken to him by the word of the Lord bade him bring him againe The Prophet yeeldeth and leaveth the word which he heard the Lord speak to beleeue an old prophet But for this cause because hee obeyed not that commandement which he heard of the Lord he received this answere that his body shoulde not come into the sepulcher of his Fathers And when he was departed a Lyon met him and slew him This is a good lesson for vs that when we haue once learned the will of GOD we go not out of our way wee leaue not this worde though Prophets ancient Prophets yea such as tell you Angels from heaven haue taught them yet I saie that wee leaue not the word of the Lord to goe with them Now many tell you of these things Fathers ancient Fathers apparitions of Saints Angels Would to God there were not many deceived by them but we see that this was a prophet of the Lord ancient in yeares godly in religion for he came not vp to worship at Bethel faithful for he beleeved the prophecie sent by God had a care to be buried by the Prophet yet whē he said that an Angel had spokē to him he lyed wherby we see that prophets old c may deceiue for each man is a lyar So that wee haue none assurance but of them in whom the holy Ghost spake that were guided by him and they are alone to be our foundation Wherefore whōsoever the Lord sendeth to Bethel to preach his truth against sinne and heresie let him not relie on any Prophet but on that word which he hath received of the Lord least not that Lyō which stood still by the carkas but that Lyon which goeth Roaring about seeking whom he may pray vpon meet thē and rent them in pieces when there wil be none to deliver them But you that are appointed messengers to foretell or rather to tell of Reformatiō already made husbandmen to sow the seed in the Lords ground Embassadours to do the Lords messages Stewards to minister food to his houshold captain●…s to fight the Lords battailes Remember that the word of GOD is the only seed which you must sow milke which you must giue meate which you must divide and sword where with you must fight Which I speake not as though it were not lawfull to vse the benefit of that which is taug●…t by Fathers or Philosophers for I know that the Apostle is said to haue sanctified those sayings of the Poets in the Acts Corinthians Titus but for that he only alleadgeth the Prophets to them that beleeved the Prophets and these proofes they vsed not as necessa rie proofes but probable arguments against thē that gaue credence thervnto Even as though in this matter we shou'd alleage against the Papists not one of thei●… Poets but their chiefe Prophet and captaine Aquinas teaching that the canonicall Scriptures are only of necessitie to proue c. againe that he who goeth about with other arguments to proue the truth of Christian Religion maketh it ridiculous And yet is the ground of their divinitie in the points wherein they dissent from vs This saith Augustine Chrysostome Damascene this saith Aristotle c. But seldōe come they with this saith the Lord. Wherefore by t●…eir owne mout seeing they bring not rat●…ones congruētes they make Christian fai●…h ridiculous And for vs what ●…aue wee to doe to fill our pulpits with mans words as though they were the ground of our faith Loath we now the heav●…nly ●…anna and ●…esire we to returne to the 〈◊〉 of Egypt Remember wee not that the fl●…sh which the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fall among the Murmurers tents came out at their nostri●…s Remēber I pray you that if we may allege them it is that the word of GOD by them may be enlightned but in no case shadowed for we are Ministers appointed to publish his word not the fanctes of mē There is a promise to the preaching of his word and a blessing to the hearers thereof This haue we a commandement to teach Then this ought to be as fire in our bowels to enflame vs to teach and in others with reverence to heare and attend to it and vnlesse we knowe this wee haue not learned the very principles of Religion But let vs that are brought vp in his Church bee content to bee fed with this food of Angels The event is That he should be made small the fulfilling whereof is mentioned by Malachy I haue made his mountaines wast and his heritage a wildernes for dragons For though after Malachy Idumeans dwelt there yet since is that of the same Prophet fufilled They shall build but I will destroy Now when wee see things so lōg before told of in their due time fulfilled this must be a ground stand for our weake faith concerning things to come as the last and eternall iudgement that as we haue seene the particular iudgemēts fulfilled on Edom Ierusalem c. wee assure our selues that what hath passed from the mouth of the Lord shall most certainely come to passe Gen. 41. 32. Now as the Apostle writeth the things which were written before were written for our learning c. For as he saith in another place the examples of the punishment of the Israelites are

haue not refused thee but me But this fully performed and perfected in the deliverance of our soules by Christ who himselfe preached to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel and then by his Apostles sent from mount Sion into all the world and so were Idumea Palestina c. subiected when all were ioined to make one flock As also the kingdome is Christs king of all kings Lord of all Lords of whom the Angel said that he should raigne for ever And out of controversie the Prophet meant not so much the former bodily as the latter spirituall deliverance and restitution even as the event plainly shewed For although that the men of Iuda returned vnder Nehemiah c. yet the people of Israel were never so restored so that assuredly wee are to thinke that by corporall benefits spirituall blessings are signified By the Iewes and the Israelites the spirituall seed of Abra ham by repossession of Canaan the possession of the graces of the holy Ghost A misterie touched before and to be had in remembrāce for the better vnderstanding of Moses and the Prophets For it pleased GOD by liuely figures to foster the expectation which his people had of Christ. Ioseph and Sampson the one a Nazarite of his brethren the other for his brethren figures of Christ who should come out of Nazareth as the Evāgelists shew sold by his brethren as Ioseph slaine for their salvation as Sampson Blood on the posts Angell must not touch those that are marked with Christs blood The high Priest with all his ornaments figures of his redemption as the Apostle to the Hebrews sheweth Serpent exalted Christ raised on the crosse the sting of the Serpent dragon in the Reve. shall not hurt vs looking on him that saueth vs from all our sinnes For as Moses brought the Israelites to the border of Canaan and sight of it but none except Iosua could bring them into possession of it so the law may shew vs the blessings and promises of GOD but Christ by his gospell maketh vs enioy them So Davids stone refused Ionah in the belly of the whale his torments Christs death and resurrection And even so these things here handled are by the Apostles expounded of Israel and Iudah according to the faith That place of Isaiah 9. Zabulon and Nepthalie Mat. 4. when the light of the truth shone amōgst them That which is in the last of Amos Iames 5. Acts 9. applied not only to Israel according to the flesh but according to the spirit also In the place where it was saide yee are my people fulfil led in Christians when they are called the sonnes of GOD. As Iames Paul Matthew expoūded those so we these Namely that both the Iews Gentiles chosen to be the people of GOD shal repossesse that which was signified by the land of Canaan of which wee were deprived by our owne sinnes Which opinion is diligently to be marked against the franticke dreames of Iewish Rabbines who dreaming their men that now liue to bee they who should bee thus set in possession doe not expound that which here is said of such as were led captiue of them that Salmanasar and Nebuchadnezzar led away but of those that Titus in the destructiō of Ierusalem made captiues And because they saw themselues since dispersed through diverse parts of the Empire by Canaan they say is here vnderstood Germanie by Zarephath ●…rance and by Sepharad Spaine And so when it is said they should possesse the South side and the plaine they say is meant that they shall not haue the hils which are not for tilling but the plaine and bottomes of the hills Against which peevish exposition we need not say much onely we may note that it cannot stand with the circumstances of the text For when it is said this host it is evident that hee spoke of his owne time that is of such as presently were here caried into captivity 2. Zarephath is elsewhere in Scripture 1. King 17. Gen. 10. set downe for the border of as for that which they allege out of a tradition that with thē the names signifie these countries so deserue they to be blinded that beleeue such dreames For they say that when Iosua expelled the Cananites many of them fled into Germanie whereas in the 1. 2. 3. of Iudges it is said of such as were not slaine that they remained in this and that tribe 3. Where here the Prophet speaketh of Iudah and Ierusalem as of two distinct parts it is manifest that Titus only led away them of Ierusalem For the Israelites after their captivitie by Salmanasar were never restored 4. Where they adde that Zepharad being a proper name commeth neer to the name wherewith they call Spaine it is plaine that although the Chaldee Paraphrast expoundeth it as a proper name yet is not the name of Spaine and it might be the name of some place then knowne that now is not But the Hebrew word may be taken for a common name signifying as much as a bond or limite of dominion being made of two words which haue that signification But these be like the dreames of their Ancestours of the sitting at the right and left hand in the kingdome and of the Chiliasts and Mahomet whose blisse they say shall be to pamper vp their bellies c. But the Prophet meant spirituall blessings the ioy of the faithfull in the service of GOD and glorie of the Saints which was begunne by Christ at his first comming is continued by his servants till his latter comming which shall be then perfected Iohn saw scaled not onely of the twelue tribes but of all tongues A point to reioice in as 13. Acts the Gentiles were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. By this meanes the true Israelites are admitted to partake of the twelue tribes and of those trees that grow on both sides the river The meanes by which all this shall bee accomplished is lastly set downe by Saviours comming vp to Sion This in figure was performed when Zerubbabel with the rest came vp from Babylon to build Ierusalem these which restored that citie and temple are called Saviours as in truth such as restore vs to our ancient inheritance c Properly indeed none but GOD can be called a Saviour as in Isaiah and Hosea I even I there is no Saviour besides me but hee is so called as a principallagent men as ministeriall instruments So the name of Iesus proper to our Saviour because hee should saue his people Otherwise Paul exhorteth Timothie for so shalt thou saue thy selfe and them that heare thee so all the ministers of the gospel yea all Christians after a sort are called Saviours as Iames 5. If any erre from the truth another convert him let the same know that he shall saue a soule from death and cover a multitude of sinnes Which is vnderstood of every one that by admonishing another keepeth

the Iewes onely as then the faithfull did according to their order of praying in the Temple but among the Gentiles also in time to come whē they being called to the church of Christ should be made acquainted with his Psalms Hymnes and learne to praise the Lord with him So that I may say the same of these words that on like occasion our Saviour did of other This day is this scripture fulfilled in your eares Howbeit not onely these wordes of this Scripture are fulfilled this day but the other too that lay forth the favour of God vnto his childrē in saving his anointed For what more commodity did the Iewes receiue by King Davids meanes then we by our sove raigne Lady Queene Elisabeths What enimies what dangers what deaths did he escape frō the like wherof the Lord hath not as often as wonderfully preserved her Maiesty The arke of the covenant wherein the testimony was laid whereon the mercy-seat was placed from which the voice of God was hard at which his name was called vpon whereto they had not sought in the daies of Saul King David brought into his city and caused the Levites ioyfully to play on instruments of musicke and lift vp their voices at the bringing of it Queene Elisabeth hath brought vs the body and truth of that where of his ceremonies were but shadowes onely the free vse and Christian doctrine of the Gospell the word of God the holy Scriptures the praiers and publike service of the Highest all in a language knowne to all and hath moved her Subiects to receiue these meanes of their instruction and k salvation with l Psalmes hymnes and spirituall songs singing with a grace in their harts vnto the Lord David to those heavenly treasures added earthly enriched his kingdome with silver and gold The purity of coine restored by her Maiesty for brssae and copper monies wherewith shee found the realme pestered doth say no lesse for her beside plate of siluer and gold with other ornamēts in so great plenty as if God would verifie according to the letter that which hee promised his Church in a mysterie n For brasse will I bring gold and for yron will I bring silver Much did it make for the safety of Iurie that o David put garisons in Syria Idumaea countries that bordered vpon the North and South thereof Much But more for England that Elisabeth to passe over the fortifying of borders hath furnished it with all sort of armour and munition never more or better and thereto with a royall navie of vessels so stately so strong so wel appointed for wars that our land is fensed with wals not only of wood P as Graecia was against Xerxes but of brasse and yron too against foreine enimies The people of Israel confes sed of themselues that q they were delivered out of the hād of the Philistines other enimies by that King The wars which our Queene hath had for our safegard in Frāce elsewhere even aliens haue seen shewed to the world that they were atchieved with marvellous honour and advantage to her selfe and her realme As this by Gods grace which shee hath presently vpon the like ground in the low countries shal be in due time also Againe how sweet a peace haue we so long enioyed vnder her at home as vnder a Solomon in that cōsideratiō rather thē a David The fruits whereof if nothing from abroad had sprong to our wealth and welfare which hath notwithstanding in no small abundance might countervaile the profites that did grow to Iurie by Davids warres victories Yea our dearth and sicknes the chastisements and afflictions that now we do taste or did heretofore as needes we must some and expedient we should haue been but gentle threats to her Maiesties subiects in respect of his the famine that lasted three yeares togither the plague that consumed seaventy thousand men And though by occasion of difficulties and wants what of men what of maintenance her Highnes hath not yet bin able to provide that wise and faithful worke men for the perfit edifying of the house of God with doctrine and discipline shoulde bee set in every Church through her dominion as neither was b David by reason of his warres to build vp the Temple yet as hee prepared things necessary for it that it might bee the better done when time should serue so hath shee by fostering Colleges and Schooles the nurseries of the ministerie Her princely care wherof hath appeared specially of late vnto vs in a branch of Oliue that was almost withered the state of Queenes College Which she hath refreshed confirmed advanced with benefits immunities so bountifully and noblely that we our posterity haue as iust cause to thinke of Queene Elisabeth in the name thereof as of Queene Philippa Our whole Oliue tree did generally feele it before in the famous and worthy Act of Parliament for the maintenance of Colleges and the reliefe of Scholers in both the Vniversities and also Winchester and Eaton An Act that I haue heard men of iudgement say and I am persivaded that they said truely God grant the care of Heads and industrie of Students doe bring it to effect may proue as beneficiall for the increase of learning as might the erecting at least of two Colleges The cōmodities then which we haue receaued by her blessed governement are as great and many as those which the Iewes did receaue by Davids That we cannot chuse but acknowledge Gods favour to haue beene as singularly extended vnto vs in preserving her as it was to them in preserving him For although her Maiestie hath not beene assaulted by so many forraine enimies as David yet by more domesticall Wherein her deliverances are to bee esteemed so much the more precious by how much it is easier to beware of open foes then of secret of vipers that are farther of then in our bosomes of Abners though valiant who professe hostilitie then of trecherous Ioabs who pretend amitie First in Queen Maries time the house of Saul I mean the brood of them who preferre will-worships before obedience to God fearing as Saul did that their seeds succession should not be established as long as David lived desired devised to bring that to passe which one of them sithence made mone it was not done the boughs were cut of the root was not hewed vp But the axe which he wished to the plesant root fel on the root of bitternes his owne hairie scalpe the devises of the wicked were disappointed by the Lord and their desires frustrated Afterward the vsurper the Ish-bosheth of Rome indeed an Ish-bosheth when She was anointed and setled in her throne sought to dispossesse her by his accursed curse Antichristian sentence declared and published in his Bul. Moorton sent from him to stirre vp wicked spirits