The prophecy of Haggai, interpreted and applied in sundry sermonsThe prophesie of Haggai, interpreted and applyed in sundry sermons

But note the blockishness, first of the Jews, then of the Papists, for they in their Talmud thought that God took delight in the Temple, that now for sorrow he hath destroyed it, he spendeth many hours in bewailing the same, the papists though the Temple be overthrown, yet think that that God took such delight in the place where it stood, that they go on Pilgrimages, as though yet that prayer of Solomons were in force for them that pray more in that place then the other, blind men that consider not rudiments of the law, while the Jews as children were thereby to be schooled to Christ our Saviour to the Samaritan so expounded it, Woman believe me, the hour cometh wherein ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet in Jerusalem worship the Father. But the hour cometh, and now is when the true worshippers of ¹the Father shall worship him in spirit and in truth: meaning the time had been when the place of true worship appointed was Jerusalem, but the truth being come, all places are now sanctified as ²Jerusalem, according to that 1 Tim. 2. 8. I will therefore that men pray very where, lifting up pure hands without wrath & doubting. The Rhemish Jesuits upon Matthew 17. ver. 9. say the mountain is called holy by Saint Peter 2 Pet. ver. 18. as that place by Moses Exod. 3. 5. was called holy ground, whereby it is evident say they that by such a precious place they are sanctified, and thereupon groweth a religion and devotion in the faithful towards such places, and that there was great pilgrimage in the Primitive Church to this mountain, and unto all those places which our Saviour had sanctified with his presence and with his miracles, and therefore to the whole land of promise, also upon John 12. 20. the gentiles say they came to adore, the gentiles came of devotion ⟨p. 67⟩³Pilgrimage to the temple of Jerusalem, and