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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.
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2. Another thing, hence the Prophet here commends unto ⟨p. 121⟩us, in that it is the Lord that speaks unto us himself from heaven, as here he saith, I will shake him; that therefore with all dutifulness we are to accept the doctrine of the Gospel, for so the Apostle concludes all that he had said of keeping faith, retaining hope, maintaining love, receiving the Kingdom unshaken, that not despising him that speaketh, we may have grace to serve him, with shamefastness and fear, and lest the earthliness else should abase the credit thereof, therefore he saith, the heavens which yet he purposed to do, only by the Ministry of his servants, for that which they do, he accounteth it as that which he himself doth, having said Luke 10. He that heareth you, beareth me: And therefore St. Paul saith that Christ speaketh in him, in 2 Cor. 13. 1. Thes. 2. 13. He thanks God for them, that they received the word of him: And Silvanus and Timotheus, not as the word of men, but as it was indeed the word of God. And doth not our Saviour, cite that out of John, I say they shall be all taught of God: Now God teacheth inwardly by his spirit, and outwardly by his Ministers, as from Christ, and Christ from heaven by them, for so the Apostle speaketh Heb. 12. 5. We must therefore come with these, and such like minds, to such assemblies, that as Eli bad Samuel say when the Lord called him, speak Lord, for thy servant heareth; So when the servants of the Lord speaks the Lords message unto us, we should hearken as to the Lord; esteem of them as to the Minister of Christ, lest God say of us, as of the Israelites to Samuel, They have not cast away thee, but they have cast away me; which also may be a lesson for the Minister, to deliver the Lords message, not his own. John and James are called Mark 3. Boanerges the sons of thunder, but howsoever certainly they were so called, because, by them he used to shake the Heavens as in thunder: Now how James thundered may appear, in that he was chosen as the chief Preacher first to be put to death,