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

that Popish error which have brought in types and ceremonies which were by Christ abolished, that the thing signified which cannot be shaken, might remain for ever as might be showed at large in respect of both time and place, and persons out of their Missals, Decretals, Pontificals, but I will only note that which this present time brings to pass, out of their year of Jubilee, we read Leviticus 25. that God commanded that the fiftieth year should be kept holy unto the Lord, as a year of deliverance from service, ⟨p. 120⟩release of debt, and restoring of Land to the owners, thereby shadowing the time of liberty which Christ was to bring from sin. Now Pope Boniface 7 chap. in the extravagants hath set down, that the 50. year is a year of pardon and freedom from all sins whatsoever, to them that will come devoutly to visit certain Churches in Rome, and to abide there if they be strangers, forth space of 13. days, if Italia, 30. because saith he, the 50. year is the year of remission, and Christ came not to abolish the law, but to fulfil it. And yet the prophet Isay 61. 2. showeth plainly, that that was a type, the substance whereof ¹was established by Christ, who was anointed (as he saith) to preach deliverance to the captives, and the acceptable year of the Lord, as he expounds it of himself, Luke 4. 18. the accepted year of Gods favour, wherein as at the Jubilee, all were set at liberty, and restored to their former estate; So when Christ came, they should be delivered from bondage, and restored to the liberty of the sons of God, which to be done by Christ to continue, as the Apostle witnesseth, Corin. where he saith, Now is that acceptable time, now is that day of salvation: Which to restrain to one year in 50. if I should compare them to beggarly rudiments, I should too much honour them, being rather a profane error, which I need not further to make infamous then by opening their covetousness showed therein, which Polidore Virg. our own Historiographer, Chapter 26. sets down, writing that the last great Jubilee before, this in the year 1500. Pope Alexander the 6. in great kindness to the Englishmen, sends them over a Spaniard, to show them the way how to come to heaven by this Jubilee; yea, and further also how they might have the benefit of it, and stay at home. But saith Polidore Virgil, Ejus liberal tas non fuit gratuita;