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

declaring thereby that he took no delight no not in his temple, when his religion was not therein maintained, and it not applied to those uses whereunto it was erected, and where ever hath there been either any person more holy abiding, or any actions more Godly practised then in the temple at Jerusalem where Christ Jesus himself preached and taught the people, yet even this place, if ever any beloved both for the persons and actions, was so detested of him when it ceased to practice these actions, and to present that whereunto it was instituted, that not many years after our Saviours death it was as you know ruined by the Romans, and made even with the ground, yea when Julian the Apostate in despite of Christ went about to raise it up again, it pleased God by miracles to show his dislike thereof, First by an earth-quake ¹and then by flakes of fire issuing out of the earth and plaguing the workmen (which not only Ruffinus and Zozomene write of but also Aminimi Marcellus who lived at that time) and served Julian being a great admirer of him, witnessing that out of the earth there issued such flames of fire as consumed the work men sundry times and so brought to pass that the work could not be accomplished, hereby it is manifest, that God delighted not in ⟨p. 48⟩the temple of it self, neither yet for the persons that have been conversant therein, & actions performed when they ceased to be: but because it represented Christ Jesus and his Church in whom indeed he delighted, and as it might be used to the service of the people of God therein to worship him with a holy worship, yea in this respect he saith he will take such delight in it, that this temple ²should be more accepted than the former (though it were for the building nothing so glorious) because in this Christ Jesus himself should be present in person. And this is the former reason namely the favour which he will show them, now out of his favour proceedeth his benefit, and that is it which he addeth; I will be glorified: for we may perceive that this is the meaning of these words, if we match them with those that go before, and those that follow after, for having before laid down the punishments that were fallen upon them he adjoineth withal, the cause thereof, for that each man ran to his own house, and left the house of the Lord waste.