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

Now in comparison of that multitude, the disciples of Christ were but few in that City: and even so in the midst of Popery there have been some Saints of God scattered among the wicked, as were the Apostles among the unbelieving Jews in Jerusalem to whom this appertained; you are the light of the world: and were they hidden? No sure, they were not hidden for the Papists found them out, and some of them alive paid for it whom they burned that their light might shine and be seen, and some they digged out of their graves when they had lain long dead, and that in them it was easily seen that they were as a City set on a hill that could not be hid; And so we may see it hath gone with the Saints of God even here in England since religion was first planted in it, and with the Church which at one time hath been in better case then at another, even as it happeneth to Cities amongst us which are not at all times so well built & maintained, and Churches also who at all times are not so well repaired, but to return to our purpose seeing we are built on a mountain and therefore are sure to have so many eyes looking upon us, let us be more wary to look to our selves, and seeing we are to live in the midst of a froward and crooked generation let us have care to shine forth like lights in the world as the Apostle exhorteth the Philippians, and hold out the light as those ¹that were persecuted in the time of the Arians who yet were light and salt who were to give light to them in the house and season them that received their words.

Now in comparison of that multitude, the disciples of Christ were but few in that City: and even so in the midst of Popery there have beene some Saints of God scattered among the wicked, as were the Apostles among the unbeleeving Jewes in Jerusalem to whom this appertained; you are the light of the world: and were they hidden? No sure, they were not hidden for the Papists found them out, and some of them alive paid for it whom they burned that their light might shine and be seene, and some they digged out of their graves when they had layen long dead, and that in them it was easily seen that they were as a City set on a hill that could not be hidde; And so we may see it hath gone with the Saints of God even here in England since religion was first planted in it, and with the Church which at one time hath been in better case then at another, even as it happeneth to Cities amongst us which are not at all times so well built & maintained, and Churches also who at all times are not so well repaired, but to returne to our purpose seeing wee are built on a mountaine and therefore are sure to have so many eyes looking upon us, let us be more wary to looke to our selves, and seeing wee are to live in the midst of a froward and crooked generation let us have care to shine forth like lights in the world as the Apostle exhorteth the Philippians, and hold out the light as those