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Zerubbabels encouragement to finish the temple. A sermon preached before the honourable House of…
Zerubbabels encouragement to finish the temple. A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at their late solemn fast, Apr. 27. 1642. By Tho. Goodwin, B.D. Published by order from that House.Zerubbabels encouragement to finish the temple. A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Apr. 27. 1642. By Tho. Goodwin, B.D. Published by order from that House.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1642
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That God carries on the work of finishing his Temple, 1[not by power nor might, but by his Spirit.] By Spirit he meaneth the holy Ghost, by a more immediate hand stirring up mens spirits unto this work; turning and convincing them of the truth, and of their duty towards it; and likewise by coincident acts of Providence, so apparently wheeling about to the effecting of it, that though might and power be brought to concur in it, yet so as his hand alone shall be seen and acknowledged in it. And thus his [Spirit] here is manifestly interpreted in the 10. ver. where it is said, that as all should see the Plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, (the instrument of building it) so they should perceive those seven eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth: (that is, his eyes of Providence, called seven, because of their perfection) these to have so guided and managed all the affairs thereof, that all the rays and beams of Providence issuing from those eyes, might be seen to meet in the accomplishment of this, as their ultimate aim and scope. Now these seven eyes, Rev. 5. 6. ⟨p. 45⟩are called the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth: And Rev. 1. 4. are plainly interpreted to be the holy Ghost in his various workings, for Grace and Peace is there wished from the seven Spirits. Thus much for the explication of it.
That God carryes on the work of finishing his Temple, 1[not by power nor might, but by his Spirit.] By Spirit he meaneth the holy Ghost, by a more immediate hand stirring up mens spirits unto this work; turning and convincing them of the truth, and of their duty towards it; and likewise by coincident acts of Providence, so apparently wheeling about to the effecting of it, that though might and power be brought to concur in it, yet so as his hand alone shall be seene and acknowledged in it. And thus his [Spirit] here is manifestly interpreted in the 10. ver. where it is said, that as all should see the Plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, (the instrument of building it) so they should perceive those seven eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth: (that is, his eyes of Providence, called seven, because of their perfection) these to have so guided and managed all the affairs thereof, that all the rayes and beames of Providence issuing from those eyes, might be seene to meet in the accomplishment of this, as their ultimate aime and scope. Now these seven eyes,