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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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1. We learn in general, that for convicting men of sin, & instructing them in the way of God the word of God, is an infallible rule and ought to be the square of all our actions, The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul, And the testimony of the Lord is sure and giveth wisdom to the simple, And Psalm 19. Neither doth only David, Psalm. 119. say that it teacheth a young 1man •o redress his way but (even of his own) he saith, that the word is a lantern unto his feet: And our Saviour Christ when he was asked o• the Scribe, how he might have eternal life, sendeth him to the law, saying, how is it written, how readest thou? Mat. •9. And so being to prove to the Sadducees the resurrection, he sendeth them to the Scripture, saying, Have ye no• read? and Mat. 22. so the Apostle Paul persuaded Timothy and in them all the Ministers to continue in the things they had 2heard, which are able to make them wise unto salvation, and desired Titus to continue in the doctrine taught him and thereby to convince them that gain-say, not by mens Doctrine which 3are all but vain rudiments Colos. 2. and which they teach but all in vain to worship God Mat. 15. a doctrine necessary to be noted touching the sufficiency of the word of God against the doctrine of mens traditions, which the Lord by Isaiah complaineth of in the Jews, that gave themselves to the Talmud, tying themselves to the doctrine of Rabbins, and also digging broken Cisterns that would hold no water, and forsaking the fountain of living waters, alleging those Canons for directing of mens actions, as now the Papists in their giving directions, for the training up of their Novices. A Jesuit, Ribera, on these words (ask the Priests) saith that it is as much as we say, now ask the Priest in cases of conscience, and the observation is very true, but then seeing cases of conscience are decided in Gods word, they that be thus asked must be guided by Gods spirit, and be able to answer as the Papists here did, out of the law of the Lord what God saith, & not out of mens doctrine, what Tho. Aquinas saith.