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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 15: Sermon the Fifteenth.
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these may serve to let us know that if we serve God by halves, and do not labour to have our works to be full, we are at least half dead, and so without speedy repentance, growing unto death. Now (according as the heathen speaks of virtue si oculis cerneretur quales excitaret amores, so per contrarium) if we could consider and set before our eyes, how loathsome a thing it were to touch dead bodies and by them to grow to death our selves, it would much affectus to fly from such dead works.
these may serve to let us know that if wee serve God by halves, and do not labour to have our works to be full, we are at least half dead, and so without speedy repentance, growing unto death. Now (accorning as the heathen speaks of vertue si oculis cerneretur quales excitaret amores, so per contrarium) if we could consider and set before our eyes, how lothsome a thing it were to touch dead bodies and by them to grow to death our selves, it would much affectus to fly from such dead workes.
When our Saviour (coming to raise Lazarus) was about to have the stone rolled away from the door of the Sepulchre his own sister loathing, and fearing the infection, Lord saith she, he stinketh now, for he hath been already four days dead: yet here the dead body was farther of from Martha; what if the dead work be nearer unto us? When King Edward the second was by treacherous conspiracy imprisoned in the Castle of Berkeley, and intended to be made away, the tormenters to hasten his end put him in an upper Chamber: and under him in a lower room, placed dead bodies, the stink whereof did so stifle and torment him, that as he told one out of the window he had ⟨p. 160⟩never in all his life endured the like torment: (as Thomas de la 1more one that served him records in the story of his life) yet these dead bodies were farther off from King Edward, Then many dead works are from many of us, Clemens Alexandrinus in his exhortatory oration ad gentes, relates that the Barbarians did use to tie unto those live bodies of men that they took captive other dead bodies, that so both might rot together: a cruelty which Virgil mentions to have bin practised by the cruel tyrant Mezentius