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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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AN EXPOSITION Upon HAGGAI. › Sermon 11: Sermon the Eeleventh.
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.
OF the three most gracious promises whereby the Lord encouraged Zerubbabel, and the residue of the Jews to go forward in the building of the Temple, the second, (in these words ensuing) doth declare that our Saviour Christ by his presence, and powerful preaching to the salvation of them that should believe, would replenish this house with glory; A blessing which how excellent it is, we are by St. Paul. Eph. 1. 18. and Col. 1. 17. sufficiently taught, and this is both compared to and amplified by the benefit which the people had in their deliverance out of ⟨p. 117⟩Egypt, mentioned in the former verse, when he saith here, yet once that is small, for so it is in the original, which is diversly supplied by the learned interpreters, some thinking here a short time to be meant put it thus, (after, or yet a little while) as if it had bin spoken to comfort the godly in the shortness of the time as Isay 10. Hab. 2. Heb. 10. others deeming the thing before spoken of to be meant, which sense I take to be more agreeable to the place, read it by a parenthesis, yet once (I that is a small thing) viz. to bring them out of Egypt, Isle do a greater matter, which kind of phrase we have also. Isay. 49. 6. But howsoever it be taken, the rest of the words wherein these leans do extol the benefit of the Gospel by Christ brought to all nations, comparing it with the law delivered to the Jews, as the Apostle infers it, Heb. 12. 26, 27. Where having stirred them up to receive the Gospel he adds that as a reason, that if they escaped not which refused him, that spake on earth, much less should they that refuse him speaking from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth, and hath now also declared, saving yet once more will I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven, to which in this place is added the seas and lands as parts of the earth, for greater amplification, whereby is employed that as when the Lord gave the law on Mount Sinai, he made the earth to shake.