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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

that the Instruments of cruelty were in their habitations Sometimes also it is vsed for such wrong as is done by fraud and subtiltie as when false witnesses are called witnesses of cruelty or cruell witnesses In this place it is takē for both for they are accused of cru●…lty not only for that they entred into the g●…te in the day of destruction laid hand on their substance stood in crosse waies to cut of them that should escape but also for that they helped them not but looked on their affliction and reioiced at it Whereby we are taught to withhold both our hands and hearts from all kind of cruelty whether it be wrought by force or fraud neither to haue any by deedes nor by affection and that we are not to suffer any to be harmed whom wee may rescue and deliver Which is a lesson for vs to be learned and practised towards all men For GOD created man in his owne Image standing in perfect righteousnesse which although by the sinne of Adam it bee defaced yet is this Image remaining in some part and very notable monuments thereof as yet remaine even in the most corrupt wherevpō the heathē by the light of nature gathered that because of that coniunction of men in human●…ty they were one to loue another and detest all cru●…lty whence those general lawes of curtesie arose to shew the way to him that wandreth to suffer another to light at our candle not to debarre any of our water stream●… to helpe with our counsell such as needed it And so we see the Samaritane finding the wounded per son though likely a Iew who were because of their religion so great enimies that they would neither eate nor talke nor haue any familiarity one with another yet moved with natural affectiō when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him bound vp his wounds powred in oile and wine put him on his own beast brought him to an Inne and made provision for him Which duty that it bindeth all by the generall law which is loue thy neighbour as thy selfe our Saviour sheweth when herevpon he willeth the Scribe to whom he telleth this hi story to go his waies and doe likewise Wherefore seeing by the law of nature and reason and the bond of humanity we are to loue all men it is manifest that then we are to abhorre and refraine from all iniuries whatsoever But if neither the law of GOD reason nor nature can moue vs herevnto let vs consider the punishmēt which is threatned and hath light on them that haue not fulfilled this law For albeit the punishment which is here laid downe is not threatned to each sort of mē that shew cruelty to another whatsoever yet in the holy Scriptures there are some plagues denounced against every one whatsoever The cruelty of the olde world was chiefly shewed vpon the brood of Cain yet the Lord said to Noah that the earth was filled with cru elty wherfore he would destroy it The Sichemites were aliens to Israel yea they vnlawfully possessed that which belonged to Iacob and his sonnes yet because Simeon and Levi murthered them in so cruell manner Iacob curseth their wrath because it wa●… cruell and their rage for that it was fierce wherefore he saith that they should be divided in Iacob and scattered in Israel a mā would haue thought the zeale of Saul had been praise worthy when he sl●…w the Gibeonites which were a remnant of the cursed Amorites but the Lord plagued Israel for it neither ceased the famine till such time as David delivered vp to be hanged of Sauls sons seaven as the Gibeonites demanded which being done the plague ceased So greatly doth the Lord detest tyrannie and cruelty though it be shewed to the broode of Cain toward vncircumcised Sichemites or profane Gibeonites yea on such whom he hath in his iudgmēt appointed to destruction though not by that meanes Whosoever he shal be therefore with whom thou shalt haue to deale I say not if he be a Papist but a Iew but be he a Turke or Atheist or whatsoever infidell remember to vse him as a man even because hee is a man Man cannot be GOD to man it was an higher title then ought to haue beene given either of Cicero to Lentulus or Virgil to Augustus but if any man play the part of Lycaon and become a wolfe then shall not the punishment of Lycaon be removed from him The Idumeans how wicked they were and how they were threatned we see here yet when the king of Moab had taken the king of the Idumeans son and burnt him on the wal in hope to get by that meanes the victory the Lord threatned by Amos For three transgressions of Moab and for foure I will not turne it away because it burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime Therefore I will send a fire into Moab I will cut of the Iudge out of the midst thereof and will slay all the princes thereof with him For with what measure we meate with the same shall it be measured to vs againe The Idumeans were wicked yet because they burnt the kings sonne so cruelly they shal be burnt for it themselues As God is the creator of all so is he also the Saviour of all concerning the blessings of this life But as he is called the Saviour of all but chiefly of the elect so detesteth he all cruelty that is done to any but especiallie that which is shewed towards his people Which is cleere by this which is here said that because of his cruelty towards Iacob c. Such are all his chosen servants as the Prophet in the Psalme saith that the Lord hath chosen Iacob for him selfe and Israel his chosen treasure By the name then of Iacob are all the chosen represented for all beleevers are of the seed of Abraham the children of Iacob they that are his chosen Of whom hee hath such care that he rebuketh even kings for their sakes Abimelech when as vnaware he would haue takē Sara whom Abraham said to be his Sister the Lord in a dreame forbiddeth him that vnlesse he withheld himselfe he was but a dead man Pharaoh oppresseth them the Lord delivereth them and drowneth him For GOD remembreth for ever the covenant which hee made with Abraham and the oath which he sware vnto Iacob Yea though they were but a few and strangers in the land yet he suffered no man to do them violence bu●… r●…pro ved kings c Touch not mine annointed and doe my prophets no harme All Christians are the Lords annointed and all are Prophets in some sort though not in special as was Abraham and this promise is made to a thousand generations Wherefore as the Lord promiseth that he will punish Damascus Tyrus c for their iniquitie and cruelty towardes his people so assuredly shall iust punishment follow all them