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A68415 A sermon preached at Cern, in the county of Dorset, the 18 day of September 1623 at the visitation of the right reuerend father in God, the Lord Bishop of Bristoll by Robert Lougher pastor of Mapowder. Lougher, Robert. 1624 (1624) STC 16828.5; ESTC S103251 21,198 40

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A SERMON PREACHED AT CERN IN THE COVNTY of Dorset the 18. day of September 1623. at the Visitation of the Right Reuerend Father in God the Lord Bishop of BRISTOLL BY ROBERT LOVGHER Pastor of Mapowder HAGGAI 1.4 Is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled houses and this house lye wast LONDON Printed by IOHN LEGATT for FRANCIS CONSTABLE and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the White Lyon in S. Pauls Church-yard 1624. To the Right Reuerend Father in God ROBERT by Diuine prouidence Bishop of BRISTOLL R. L. wisheth all health and happinesse both Temporall and Eternall RIght Reuerend Your Lordships request at Cern was to me as a command vpon my Canonicall obedience so that I durst not neglect the Apostles precept Obedite praepositis as hauing likewise learned that obedience is better then sacrifice Hauing hereupon summed vp my weake Meditations I haue now made bould to send you a Copie of my poore Labours in your Visitation according to your Lordships pleasure and my promise Whatsoeuer it was if any thing in the speaking I feare me it will be no thing or no thing like in the reading as wanting that life which is the first second and third thing as in a Rhetoricall so in a Theologicall Orator Onely this is my comfort that your Lordship will be pleased to giue it both life and grace by your reading it together with a kind of Episcopall confirmation by imposing your sacred hands vpon it Whatsoeuer it is it is wholy yours preached by your appointment and in your Lordships Visitation transcribed according to your pleasure and now with all humilitie it comes to kisse your Lordships hands in hope of a gracious and fauourable acceptance Princes and people did bring to King Dauid Brasse Siluer Gold and pretious Stones in great aboundance towards the building of a Temple a materiall House for the Lord of Hostes. Siluer I haue none and Gold I haue none nor any precious and curious stuffe fit for this purpose but such as I haue giue I vnto you towards the building of Gods spirituall House And where there is a willing and a readie minde God accepteth according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not Tolle Lege And the Lord giue a blessing to it and vouchsafe to blesse your Lordship for deigning thus to blesse and to grace it And so I cease to trouble you but neuer to honour you resting Euer deuoted to your Lordships seruice ROBERT LOVGHER Haggai cap. 1. vers 14. And the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel a Prince of Iudah and the spirit of Iehoshua the sonne of Iehozadak the hie Priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they came and did the worke in the house of the Lord of Hosts their God THE Lord commanded Moses to make two siluer trumpets which were to bee sounded by the Priests the sonnes of Aaron Numb 10.1 c. At the first sound of the trumpet the Rulers were to stirre the sounding againe of the trumpets was for the people so we reade in the tenth chapter of the booke of Numbers Men brethren and fathers right reuerend and the rest beloued in our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ It hath pleased God at this time to send me one of the meanest and weakest of the sonnes of Aaron to sound out the siluer trumpet of his sacred word to incite and stirre vp both Rulers and people to a conscionable performance of their duties in their seuerall places And the rather to animate and incourage me in this his Message he commandeth me as he doth all his Embassadours in the like case To cry aloud to lift vp my voice like a trumpet to shew his people their transgression and the house of Iacob their sinnes Esay 58 1. as it is in the 58. chapt of the prophesie of Esay You know how famous Ierusalem sometimes was the Citie of God and the Temple builded there by King Salomon ● Chro. 22.5 accounted the mirrour and glory of the world Yet for the sinnes of Princes Priests and people both Citie and Temple were brought vnto destruction by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians Who after two yeeres siege rased the Citie and burnt the Temple downe to the ground carrying away both Princes and people as slaues to Babylon when after 70. yeeres captiuitie Cyrus king of Perfia subduing the Chaldeans gaue them leaue to returne to Indea their owne countrey with commandement and authoritie to reedifie and build vp the Temple destroyed by the Babylonians restoring also the vessels of the house of God which were of siluer and gold carried away by Nebuchadonosor all which to a great number were deliuered to Zerubbabel Prince of the people 50400. E●ra 1.11 which returned with him to Ierusalem This people two yeeres after their returne began to lay the foundation of the Temple where it stood before And this was done with great reioycing with trumpets and cymbals with singing of the Leuites and shouting of the people But they had no sooner begun but presently there arose vp aduersaries who openly and secretly hindered this worke vntill the second yeere of king Darius who mou'd by the Spirit of God did further this building as king Cyrus did before him But now behold Prince Priest and people were so carried away some with matter of pleasure this way and some with matter of profit that way that they little regarded the building of Gods sanctuary running euery man to his owne house and letting Gods house lie waste as it is in the ninth verse Whereupon the Lord raised vp this his Prophet Haggai to rouse them out of their sleepe of security and carelesnesse and to spurre them forward in the worke of the Lords house which here you see did take effect And the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Zerubbabel the Prince c. In which words are foure things remarkeable and of vs at this time to be considered First what is meant by the word spirit Secondly who stirred vp the spirit And that was God The Lord stirred vp the spirit Thirdly the persons whose spirit the Lord stirred vp And they were Prince Priest and People The Lord stirred vp the spirit of Zerubbabel the Prince and the spirit of Iehoshua the hie Priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people Fourthly the end wherefore the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Prince Priest and people and that was to the repairing and building of his Temple they came and did the worke in the house of the Lord of hosts their God Of these points while I shall speake briefely and plainly as it shall please the Spirit of God to afford me his blessed assistance lend me I beseech you a little your wonted patience and attention And the Lord stirred vp the spirit This word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spirit hath in the Scriptures diuers significations Sometimes it is