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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 4: Sermon the Fourth, June 11. 1584.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Though if Saint Jude taught it not yet we may learn it out of Saint Paul when he willeth us to exhort one another, for every one of us is the temple of Gods holy spirit and every one of us is exhorted to build up this temple according ⟨p. 52⟩to the grace which is given him. Not all indeed as the ministers who are specially given for the gathering of the Saints together for the work of the ministry and for edification of the 1body of Christ, but in some sort by example, and word, at due times and seasons according to the measure of grace given to them, and this do the godly in the prophecy of Esau, where they are brought in, one exhorting, encouraging, and calling upon another Come let us go up to the house of the Lord, and he will 2teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths, And David rejoiced when he heard them say Come let us go up to the house of the Lord, our feet shall stand in thy Gates O Jerusalem; but with us there is so little care had hereof, that men take scorn to be advertised of their duty especially by their inferiors, yea that they who should advertise others and be advertised themselves too, are 3most careless of all men, and some there are so wretchlesse and careless in this respect of going up and bringing timber, and building the house of the Lord that they no whit regard it, as though it no whit appertained to them to build others, but let us learn that it was the voice of Cain, am I my brothers keeper; Reuben though none of the best sons of Jacob yet when he saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he rent his clothes and returning to his brethren said, the child is not yonder, and I alas whither shall I go. This then is the first point that we are to mark, that they who are willed to go up and build are not Zerubbabel and Joshua only, but all the remnant of the people, and all 4faithful Christians are bound to build up themselves and others For both we are the body of Christ & others also: both which are noted by the name of the Temple both in the 1 Cor. 6. 19