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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.
which yet I speak not as though all were to take bodily labour: for there is also a labour of the mind, which spendeth the body happily more, then the other, neither as if I thought it not lawful to use recreation for 1the comfort and strengthening of the body and mind, for he that willed Timothy to drink a little wine for his stomachs sake, by proportion granteth us to use a little recreation also if our 2bodies stand in need of it; but this is granted and must be used in such sort that it may tend to make us more able, each one, in some vocation lawful, to build this house unto the Lord. So 3then must the Minister give attendance to teaching, reading and exhorting. I need not speak of all singular vocations, seeing we have a general rule that every one continue in the vocation whereunto he is called of God, to serve him with pains and industry ⟨p. 55⟩carefully and diligently. For we are commanded not only to build, but in such sort as we use all diligence, as also Saint Peter hath expressed it, considering what our Saviour hath told us namely, that the way is narrow and the gate strait whereby men pass to life, and therefore that it is necessary that we labour 4and strive to enter therein and that the Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and that the violent take it by force; and if it be required in all vocations that we should be painful what is 5required then of the minister of whom in especial it is exacted that he should build this house, and then (alas) what shall 6we say of them who not only go not up to the mountain, but being in the mountain stay not there, but come down into the valley? or if they stay in the mountain yet preach nor there, no caring to bring up timber and to build; Nay I would there were not many of them that behave themselves so wickedly in their conversation that they may be rightly joined with them of whom it is written in the Psalms, that they break down all the carved work of Gods house with axes and hammers: but leaving them to their just judgement seeing exhortations pierce