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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

evill against them in spoiling them of their goods and substance and in killing of their bodies Wherefore as hath beene said if we offend in the like if in greater we must looke to receiue the like reward So that if our hearts bee open to all manner of vngodly thoughts and wicked lusts our tongues prepared to vnrighteous speech out hands set to rob whether it bee the goods of priuate or publike persons if wee kill not the bodies but the soules of men let vs learne this lesson and dread this severe punishment For the wrath of God for such things commeth on the children of vnbeliefe For such things saith the Apostle not onely for the same Enoch prophesied of such saying behold the Lorde commeth with thousands of his Saints to giue iudgement against all men and to rebuke all the vngodly among them of all their wicked deedes which they haue vngodly committed and of all of their cruel speakings which wicked sinners haue spoken against him The Lord will come to iudge the wicked for their deedes for their cruell speaking and for their thoughts the fountaine and spring thereof This was prophecied by Enoch before the floud and then performed Iude applyeth it as spoken against all the wicked Paul vseth this execration If any loue not the Lord Iesus let him be accursed Maran atha The Syriake words signifie the Lord commeth and are the first words of that prophecie of Enoch adenouncing of that severe punishment which shall come on the head of al sinners as certainly as the Lord shall come to iudgement Here that we deceiue not our selues in iudging of this loue to Christ our Saviour hath set downe a ready note to discerne it by If yee loue me keepe my commandements I come not to the particular note of Pastours which our Saviour hath laid down to be this If thou loue me feed my sheep if thou loue me feed c. so earnest so tender so careful a charge noted in this repetition would be deeply considered of them that are in that place if there bee any loue in them if there be not thē I pronounce not this curse against Non residents but Saint Paul doth If any man loue not the Lord Iesus as these do not which feed not the lambes and sheepe of Christ let them bee accursed Maran●…atha Here also all hypocriticall Christians are warned to consider their waies which content themselues with an outward profession and thinke themselues safe while they remaine in the visible Church But our Saviour sheweth that hee is the vine wee the branches his father the husbandman so that each branch though he be in the outward barke fastned to the vine yet if he bring not forth fruit hee is cut off and cast into the fire It profitteth him nothing to haue beene in the vine if he be fruitlesse But if these speeches of Enoch Iude Paul and our Saviour doe the lesse touch vs because they be farre of and so wee pamper our selues esteeming the pleasures of sinne for a season greater treasures then the kingdome of heaven let vs consider the next point 2 That is neere When Ionah sent to the Ninivites cryed in their streets yet 40 daies and Niniveh shall bee aestroyed the people of Niniveh beleeved God proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them vnto the least I haue not the function of Ionah but the commission of Iohn Baptist to tell you that even now the axe is laid to the root of the tree and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is cut downe and cast into the fire How neere or farre of it is to every one can I not tell yet I am certaine that seeing the axe is even now laid to the root that it is not long to any Wherefore while it is yet called to daie let vs not harden our hearts while it is light let vs walke in the light while it is daie let vs worke the night commeth where in we shall not worke before that day come which shall make an ende of all daies For it is assuredly pronounced to be neere vpon all the wicked This is spoken not only of the particular iudgment of each man but also of that daie so called by an excellencie the day of iudgement which GOD hath appointed herein to iudge the world by Christ as Paule taught the Thessalonians which before GOD with whom a thousand yeares are but as one day is no doubt neere though as men count far and neere I knowe not whether it be far or neere It is not for vs to knowe the times and seasons which the Father hath placed in his own power He speaketh not only of the certaine houre but of the times in generall so that there is cōdemned the rash presumption of those which take vpon them to deliver the yeare and season of the Lords comming to iudgement As that fond Prophecie of Eliah not the Prophet but a Ribbin of the Iewes who hath written that the world should endure but 6000. yeares which is a Talmudicall dreame worthy that sincke of the Iewish filthinesse which yet neither the Iewes from whom it came do beleeue for thē must they beleeue that their Messias is come which they deny The world hauing cōtinued 5530 yeares So much the more blame worthy are some Christian Chronicles which haue alleaged this dreame as a thing of some weight and that is worse haue fathered it vpon Eliah Wherefore whether that great day bee farre or neere off I knowe not neither will I deny that it is neere for it may be neerer then any imagine For it shall come as a theefe in the night And although mockers scorners do laugh at it yet shall they once no doubt feele it The particular iudgement of the wicked as it was then said to be neere so may we say that of al such it is so now For though there were no more but the generall administration of things on the earth wee are thereby sufficiently taught that man which is borne of a woma hath but a short time to liue c. which if it may be truely affirmed of all men then how much more of the wicked which shal not liue out halfe their days Who thought that Sena cherib in all his power should haue beene murthered of his owne children in the temple of his owne Gods who would haue beleeved that Baltasar in the middest of his banquet should haue receiued his sentence of destruction and so suddainely to be slaine by the conspiracie of his subiects The rich man whose land was very fruitfull even then when he bad his soule take her rest had her taken from him There is none of vs hath greater Charter of his life then Senacherib Baltasar or the Rich man Sith that each particular mans iudgement cannot bee farre of and may be very neere for the old cannot liue long the young may die very quickly Let vs remember to

haue reioiced over the children of Iudah in the day of her destruction thou shouldest not haue spoken insolently in the day of affliction 13 Thou shouldest not haue entred into the gate of my people in the day of their destruction neither shouldest evē thou haue looked on their affliction in the day of their distresse nor haue laid hands on their substance in the day c 14 Neither shouldst thou haue stand in the crosse wates to cut of them that should escape neither shouldest thou haue betraied the remnant in the day of their destruction THE Prophet having generally in the former verses delivered the cause of the destruction of the Idumeans namely their crueltie which they shewed to the Israelites their brethren when Ierusalē was sacked at what time they shewed themselues as their enimies he doth now in these wordes particularly lay the same out that the poisoned sore of their barbarousnesse being declared the iustice of GOD in cutting them of might bee shewed vnto them Which causes in particularitie are delivered by way of admonition wherein is opened what they should haue done and they concerne Either their 1. Affections 2. Actions 1. Affections Hatred Envy testified by their gladnesse reioicing at their harmes afflictions 2. Their actions are either concerning words proud spightful thou shouldst not haue spoken insolently deeds spoiling thē of goods Entred into the gate laid hands on substance life Stood in the breach to cut of them that escaped Betraied the remnant Wherefore in these points consisted the crueltie of Edom in wishing speaking and doing evill against Israel Welwillers cannot looke on our miseries or abide to see them for griefe and sorrow As we read of Agar the mother of Ismael that whē her sonne was like to die for want of water shee cast the child vnder the tree and went and sate over against him a far off for she said I will not see the death of the child But here the evill wil that the Idumeans bore appeareth and the harme they wished them in that they reioiced to looke vpon the affliction of their brethren Neither could they keepe this evill will within thē but they vttered it in their speech speaking proudly a gainst them or as it is in the Hebrew making their mouth great or wide Which here being plainely set downe is by others elsewhere more plainely opened when they cryed rase it rase it even to the foundations and againe behold the house of Iudah is like vnto all the heathen Besides here they staied not but to their evill will naughtie words they added naughtie deeds for they entred into the gate laid hands on their substance and as though it had beene a small thing to rob them they proceeded further and tooke away their liues by killing some by present death for whom they waited in the breaches others by lingring death whom they betraied that so they might die in torments captivity And all these albeit very grievous in themselues yet are more increased by the circumstances Of 1 persons 2 Times 1. Persons by whō a brother wherefore add neither oughtest thou to note the indignity against whom a brother not beholding the day of thy brother My people 2 The circumstance also of the time encreaseth the cruelty in the day he was made a stranger in the day of affliction Whereby is declared what marveilous savage hearts they bore for then even enimies are moved to pity Wherefore to shew the grievousnes in respect hereof this clause is repeated in each branch And when it is also saide that they stoode in the breach betrayed the remnant not sparing such as had escaped we see that on all sides their cruelty is amplified Wherefore they are iustly reproved when they are admonished not to haue done that which they did By which reproofe of Edom we are admonished to haue two things if we will neither be idle nor vnfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ namely 1 Patience 2 Brotherly loue in that they did should haue done 1 It is a heard and heavy message that the children of GOD must suffer so great misery cruelty to beare it also a great griefe it is that our enemies should looke on our affliction and reioice greater to enter into our gates and take away our goods greatest of all to take away our life yet is it more then this to kill vs after wee haue escaped especially to suffer all this of our brethren Yet is there no remedy the godly in all this must be patient and suffer all these things and that not onely of strangers but also of our brethren The gate that leadeth to life is narrow and straite Wee are to sit downe and cast accompts for we are to build a costly worke We are borne as the sonnes of Iacob vnder the bondage of Pharaoh so vnder the thraldome of Sathan that spirituall Pharaoh Christ is our Moses by whō through Baptisme as through the red sea we are led to the land of promise but before we come thither wee are to passe through the wildernesse where is want of meate and drinke and other necessaries besides wild beasts noysome serpents c Yet this must we passe through before we can come to Canaan that is heavē Which floweth not as did that with milke and hony but with such ioy and comfort as tongue cannot vtter neither haue at any time entred into the hart of man Now seeing vnlesse we passe through the wildernes we cannot enter into Canaan wee must be content to beare whatsoever affliction is therein But if we murmure and rebell he hath sworne in his wrath that we shall not enter into his rest So hard a thing is it nay so impossible to enter heaven but through many tribulations If any man will come after me saith our Saviour let him take vp his crosse dayly and follow me The death of the crosse was not only most grievous but most shame full also and so much the more for that such as were to bee handled most despitefully were put to cary their crosse themselues for they had favour shewed thē who had others to helpe yet were not this worst if they were to do it but once or to die but once but whē we are commanded to do it dayly it is a sore matter yet must those that will follow Christ be content to doe it to beare all affliction even most grievous and shamefull even the crosse For Christian mens life is death and that daily that they may say with the Church for thy sake are we killed dayly not the whole day onely but every day Christ Iesus the sonne of GOD who thought it not robbery to be like vnto God was content for our sake to endure all miseries even the death of the crosse with all the indignities that Edom put Iuda vnto For they in the day of his affliction stood staring looking vpon him they reioiced against him