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

to hear his word read and expounded: ⟨p. 47⟩and so because these works of Christians are acceptable through Christ, in this respect also it may be said that he took great delight in the temple. Not in it self as Pilgrimagers imagine that God delighteth in places for themselves, or because that holy men have possessed them. For when these actions I spake of were not practised in this place but the temple was so polluted that it did not represent his dearly beloved son, God himself showed (sending his Prophets to them) that he took no delight in it, and namely by the prophet Ezekiel to whom the Lord showed the great abominations that the house of Israel had committed to cause him to depart from his sanctuary, &c. which ¹having at large in that Chap. showed in the 11 Chapter he declareth how the Cherubims lift up their wings and mounted from the earth and went forth and stood upon the mountain: and so by degrees the Lord forsook them from the sanctuary to the threshold of the temple then to the Cherubims which stood at the right hand of the Court, verse 3 then to the Eastgate and ²entrance of the Court. verse 19 to provoke the people of the City to repentance and openly to show his departure, Finally flying from the City into the mountain. Chap. 11. 13.

to heare his word read and expounded: ⟨p. 47⟩and so because these workes of Christians are acceptable through Christ, in this respect also it may be said that he tooke great delight in the temple. Not in it selfe as Pilgrimagers imagine that God delighteth in places for themselves, or because that holy men haue possessed them. For when these actions I spake of were not practised in this place but the temple was so polluted that it did not represent his dearly beloved son, God himselfe shewed (sending his Prophets to them) that he took no delight in it, and namely by the prophet Ezekiel to whom the Lord shewed the great abominations that the house of Israel had committed to cause him to depart from his sanctuary, &c. which ¹having at large in that Chap. shewed in the 11 Chapter he declareth how the Cherubims lift up their wings and mounted from the earth and went forth and stood upon the mountain: and so by degrees the Lord forsook them from the sanctuary to the threshold of the temple then to the Cherubims which stood at the right hand of the Court, verse 3 then to the Eastgate and