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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon HAGGAI. › Sermon 15: Sermon the Fifteenth.
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. 14, 15. &c. Then saith Haggai, if a polluted person touch any of these shall it be unclean, &c? then answered Haggai, so is this people, &c.
IF those two types brought to convince the Jews of error who thought they were by their sacrifices sanctified, howsoever they continued disobedient and did not build the Temple as they were commanded by the Lord) the former hath already taught us that the outward service of God, doth sanctify none, but only him that hath a faithful ⟨p. 154⟩and obedient hart. And by the latter, now, further we are to learn: that who so hath not a faithful and obedient heart he is not only, not sanctified by any outward service: but on the contrary both himself and all his actions, yea even his outward service of God: is impure, defiled and detestable in the sight of God. For the word in the original which we translate a polluted person, doth properly signify such an one as is unclean and polluted by touching of a dead corps (the phrase being to be supplied from Numb 9 6.) compared with Levit. 22. 4. the Law concerning whom Numb. 19. is, that whatsoever such an one toucheth should be unclean, as here the priests confess. Wherein, after the manner of the mysteries of faith, expressed as by shadows, and portraitures in a dark manner, by legal rites and ceremonies (as heretofore hath been showed: the touching of a dead man (who came unto the state of mortality by sin Genes. 3.) doth import the committing of sin which is called by the Apostle a dead work, Hebr. 9. 14. and that ceremonial uncleanness which did exclude out of the camp Numb. 5. 1. doth imply that moral uncleanness which doth indeed defile