The prophecy of Haggai, interpreted and applied in sundry sermonsThe prophesie of Haggai, interpreted and applyed in sundry sermons

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 ^*Anaeid. 8. Tormenti genus. Virgil might well call it, but the Word [Greek or Hebrew]. Doth express it in Clemens, how the one did cause the other to rot together. The Apostle writing to Ephesus 4. 29. forbids that [Greek or Hebrew]—should proceeds out of their mouth: we commonly translate it any corrupt communication, but the Word properly signifieth that which is rotten, which compared with the verb which Clemens useth may open more of the Apostles meaning then else haply would come into our mind; which the Apostle seemeth somewhat to expound, where Colo. 4. 6. exhorting to the contrary; he wisheth that their words may be gracious and seasoned with salt, salt you know being the preservative against rottenness. And so hence we may imagine of all dead works what there the Apostle speaketh of one (viz. foolish & filthy talking) that they are rotten, therefore as Clemens speaks of those dead carcakes joined to living bodies [Greek or Hebrew], they make them in whom they are, to rot, and putrefy;

When our Saviour (comming to rayse Lazarus) was about to have the stone rowled away from the dore of the Sepulcher his own sister lothing, and fearing the infection, Lord saith she, he stinketh now, for he hath beene already foure dayes dead: yet here the dead body was farther of from Martha; what if the dead worke be nearer unto us? When King Edward the second was by treacherous conspiracy imprisoned in the Castle of Barkly, and intended to be made away, the tormenters to hasten his end put him in an upper Chamber: and under him in a lower roome, placed dead bodies, the stinke whereof did so stifle and torment him, that as he told one out of the window hee had