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

But leaving them let us apply these things to our selves, Remember the exhortation which the Prophet useth to the building of the Lords house, and you have heard the proportion betwixt their temple and our Church. The time admonisheth us ⟨p. 40⟩even as it did them to consider our ways for we are visited with scarcity even as were they, but behold when as by reason hereof we should be humbled under the mighty hand of God, to call our ways to remembrance and to mend our naughty manners, we are wanton and give our selves to sporting and pastime, The which is by the sound of the trumpet signified, not the sound of a trumpet to proclaim a fast, as the Lord commandeth by the prophet: but to proclaim idle and ungodly plays, as though we were resolved to verify that which the Prophet saith, I called (saith the Lord) to weeping and mourning, and behold eating and drinking, &c. which is also so much the worse that these plays have been condemned by statute of our university, yea worst of all for that at this time there is an order appointed by authority for extraordinary prayers to be used, whereas we not only take no such order but rather the quite contrary by this disorder, which is ¹such that the cry thereof is carried from one side of the town to the other, and though that cannot be said of it as of the cry of them that sate them down to eat and drink and rose up to play. It is not the sound of them that have the worse, &c. yet not far unlike may it be said. It is not the cry of warriors but of wantons. And here the Prophet setteth it down that they sowed much &c. and layeth down the cause for that the Lords house did lye waste, let us also consider, as the Prophet commandeth, our own ways I will not descend to particular persons, but let every man consider it on his bed, whether there be not some who having many Ecclesiastical livings and much coming in yearly into their hands thereby, yet may count it so as though it had been put into a bottomless purse: and whether many that live on pulse be not in as good liking as they that feed on such variety: I leave it to your own consideration.

But leaving them let us apply these things to our selves, Remember the exhortation which the Prophet useth to the building of the Lords house, and you have heard the proportion betwixt their temple and our Church. The time admonisheth us ⟨p. 40⟩