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A43819	The season for Englands selfe-reflection and advancing temple-vvork discovered in a sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament at Margarets Westminster, Aug. 13, 1644, being an extraordinary day of humiliation / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1644 (1644)	Wing H2027; ESTC R2603	33,390	45

Mountain and bring wood and build the House and I will take pleasure in it and I will bee glorified saith the Lord IN reading the Holy Scripture that you may gain a more comprehensive knowledge thereof you shall doe wisely as to observe the originall Language in which the Holy men of God spake and to borrow what light you can from the neighbouring words in the context so withall very seriously to inquire into the Method of the severall bookes among themselves Hereby might you often find the understanding of one booke to bee as a key to unlocke another to which it hath a peculiar reference In the generall were you well acquainted with the five Books of Moses they being the Basiso●ll the I●st It were a good preparation for your more intimate knowledge of the whole frame of Scripture Then for the particulars if you would clearly understand the Psalmes read the Books of Samuel much especially the Second many of the Psalmes being penned occasionally upon some passage of Story there mentioned they will thence receive much light And if you desire to bee well versed in the Proph●●e read over and over the two Bookes of the King● and the Second Booke of Chronicles where you have the History of the Kings of Israel and Judab in whose dayes the severall Prophets did prophecy as doubtlesse in the New Testament d●stinct knowledge of the Story of the Acts of the Apostles would make many of their Epistles much more familiar to you You must not conceive as too many doe that the Res gestae the things contained in the Scripture were acted in the same order wherein the Bookes are ordinarily ranked up in your Bibles Let none thinke that Isaiah was the first of the Prophets in order of prophecying because hee is now placed first Learned men conclude out of 2 Kings 13. 25. that Jon●h prophecyed first of all the sixteen Prophets Nor that Pauls Epistles to the Romans and to the Corinthians were the first hee wrote because now so placed amongst the Bookes of the New Testament They who mind the story of the Acts of the Apostles affirm the Epistles to the Thessalonians to have the precedence Who ever ranked the Bookes of the Prophets and the Epistles of the Apostle Paul did rather consider the quantity of the volume then the order of the Contents in them It 's true whereas the Prophets are ordinari●y cast into three rankes some who prophecyed before the captivity of Babylon as Isaiah Jeremiah and others giving the people warning of it some who were appointed to bring them cordials in the captivity as Ezekiel and Daniel some to quicken and direct them after their return from the captivity as Haggai Zechariah Malachi These three you shall find in their proper place which is to bee last in order In reading them it is good to joyn the History with the Prophecy one will Illustrate the other There are little Historicall Books which have some contemporaneity with these as containing the story of Gods providence about his people and their carriage towards him after their returne from the captivity If you please to cast your eye upon Ezra 5. ver. 1. there you shall finde upon the cessation of the building of the Temple mentioned Ezra 4. 23 24. God stirred up Haggai and Zechariah to prophecy to the ●ews as here Hag. 1. 1. The word of the Lord came by Haggai the Prophet unto Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel Governour of Judah and to Joshuah the sonne of Josedech the High Priest whom hee finds readily willing to bee ingaged in Gods work This you may observe in all stories When the Lord hath any glorious designe to carry on hee prepares some active Instruments to concurre with him therein Here Haggai was raised by God ro stirre up Zerubbabel Joshuah and the people they were fitted to entertain the Prophets counsell and to concurre with God in his great worke as appeares most clearely Ezra 5. 2. and Hag. 1. 14. where you have a most proper Echo to Haggai his Sermon a joynt contribution of their indevours The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the spirit of Joshuah and the spirit of all the remn●nt of the people and they came and did worke in the House of the Lord of Hoasts their God And when the Lord intended to imploy Luther for the discovering and confounding the Abominations and usurpations of the Pope what a Traine was there laid for that work in the unexpected concurrence of others with him at that very time Then were there some great persons stirred up by God to appeare for him and protect him from the fury of his Adversaries as the Duke of Saxony c. About that time there were some Learned men furnished with ability and courage to second him as Zivinglius c. yea and then some Cities prepared to receive his Doctrine which so many others persecuted As it was in Judah in H●zekiahs dayes The hand of God was upon them to give them one he● 2 Chron. 30. 12. So in Germany in Luthers time The same happy experience have wee found amongst our selves when the Lord was pleased to arise to have mercy upon his Sion first in Scotland and now in England what a constellation of providences hath appeared in awakening the spirits of so many to bee vigorously active for the blessed worke of Reformation According to that in Psal. 110. 3. The people are willing in the day of his power Some of our Zerubbabels of our Joshuahs and of the remnant of our people have been more willing then formerly to bee ingaged in Temple-worke God will either finde or make Instruments to serve his purpose in advancing his owne great designe But bee the worke never so good there will bee some obstructions and though some Instruments bee prepared for action yet there are too many ready to retard the best and most plausible things Hereupon this man of God the Prophet Haggai being sent with a Message to quicken the building of the Temple First begins with complaints to their negligent intermission in the Lords Worke discovering the carnall principle which did mis-lead them ver. 2. This people say the time is not come the time that the Lords house should bee built The Babylonish furnace had not burnt up all their drosse they had been seventy yeeres at the Schoole of affliction and yet many of them very poore proficients They made good Solomons Proverbe chap. 27. 22. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a morter among wheat with a pestell yet will not his foolishnesse depart from him Indeed they doe not here bluntly and peremptorily refuse to joyne in building the Temple but indevour cunuingly to put it off Sloathfull spirits will study pretences and excuses to palliate their negligence in the Lords worke And where ever it light they care not so they may but shelter and justifie themselves in their own omissions