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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 14: Sermon the Fourteenth.
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.
Haggai 2. 13. &c. If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with the skirt do touch bread or partage, shall it be holy? and the Priests answered, and said, No, &c. and Haggai said, So is this people, &c.
Haggai 2. 13. &c. If one beare holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with the skirt do touch bread or partage, shall it be holy? and the Priests answered, and said, No, &c. and Haggai said, So is this people, &c.
TO pass over all coherence of those words that follow with these (noted heretofore) and to remember you only of the drift and meaning of the same: The Jews being now returned from their Babylonish captivity to Jerusalem, although they went not forward with the building of the Temple as the Lord commanded them: yet because they offered sacrifice on the alter of the Lord: built long before they supposed that they were thereby sanctified, so that their disobedience in not building the Temple did not defile them. The contrary thereto, here they are taught out of the law by two resemblances, 1 Levit. 6▪ & 2 Num. 19. for that 1 avouching every thing that touched the flesh of the sin offering to be clean, did not yet imply that the bread and wine that touched the skirt, which touched the sin offering should be likewise clean, and the 2 affirming them that touched a dead body to be unclean: and whatsoever they touched also to be unclean; did show plainly that all that such a party did touch, whether bread or oil was thereby defiled and unclean, after which points out of the law avouched by the confession of the Priest (for God bad the Prophet ask them) the latter part of the second similitude followeth, so is this people, ⟨p. 145⟩and so is this whole nation before me, &c. the force of the illation or argument, why the Jews were not sanctified by their sacrifices, but count their sacrifices defiled by their disobedience, doth consist in the mysteries represented by those ceremonies. For First Christ Jesus our Saviour was signified by the sin-offering whose flesh was most holy, here called holy flesh, the touching of which here signifies the spiritual touching of Christ by faith, as the woman