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The prophecy of Haggai, interpreted and applied in sundry sermonsThe prophesie of Haggai, interpreted and applyed in sundry sermons
The prophecy of Haggai, interpreted and applied in sundry sermons by the famous and judicious divine, John Rainolds, D.D. Never before printed, being very useful for these times.The prophesie of Haggai, interpreted and applyed in sundry sermons by the famous and judicious divine, John Rainolds, D.D. Never before printed, beeing very usefull for these times.
London: printed by W.W. for William Lee, 1649
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The first needeth no exposition, saving, that whereas it is said, that the Lord did stir them up, we may conceive their drowsy sluggishness was like unto a sleep, and sleep is nothing but a similitude of death, wherefore the Apostle saith, Ephes. 5. 114. Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. The same admonition the Jews did receive by God at the time when by stirring them up he awoke them out of sleep. 2The next point is the circumstance of time, v. 15. In the 24 day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the King, which doth show that the part doth not belong to the second Chapter, but to the first, for the scriptures were delivered into chapters a little before our age, but the scripture it self showeth this 3division is more probable seeing that the second verse of the next Charter should begin with another circumstance of time, so Saint Jerome and others have divided the same, a matter wherein I would not have spent so many words, but that the council of Trent, and some of the ancient Fathers have joined the same to ⟨p. 95⟩the second Chapter according to the translation of the old latins, Sextus the 5 doth not join this to the former but to the latter circumstance in the second Chapter.
The first needeth no exposition, saving, that whereas it is said, that the Lord did stirre them up, we may conceive their drowsle sluggishnesse was like unto a sleepe, and sleepe is nothing but a similitude of death, wherefore the Apostle saith, Ephes. 5. 114. Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. The same admonion the Jewes did receive by God at the time when by stirring them up he awoke them out of sleep.