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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

their glory The Lord make them wise who remaine to study Gods meaning herein Certainly this were a good improvement of it for you who have been preserved to consecrate your lives your Honour to the honour of your good God in the building of his House Quest What preparations should wee make for the building of Gods House what may wee do towards it Answ. Bee pleased to accept of these few plain directions improve your interest and influence for the acting of them First Downe with the old building of Popery and Prelacy The Pope hath been raising himselfe a pompous palace for many yeeres together upon Christs ground a great incroachment upon our deare Saviour who is King of his Church which must come down it is designed to ruine Rev. 14. 8. Prelacy was the Scaffold whereby this building of Popery was raised to so great an heighth and now many would retain it as a crutch to support tottering Babylon Make good your Solemn Covenant If you are not in a capacity for the overthrowing of it by the exercise of the Legisative power in a Bill it 's worthy your wise consideration whether it were not fit to doe what you can by passing an Ordinance of Parliament against it Secondly when you have pulled downe the old building leave no rubbish upon the place It was an unhappy defect in former Reformations though some of the grand Idols were removed yet still there was so much Babylonish sfuffe left behind which now hath occasioned great trouble Away with Ceremonies Altars and Crucifixes away with the Popes Canon Law or whatsoever may give any occasion to Samarit an builders to make such a mixture in the Church as is contrary to the simplicity in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 3. which should bee the rule of the Churches Conformity Thirdly Lay a good foundation in the building of Gods house Christ in his Gospell a sure foundation Isa. 28. 16. The foundation is both the strength and the rule of the building to which it should be commensurate There is a foundation personall Christ himselfe 1. Cor. 3. 11. and doctrinall as hee is held forth in the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles Ephes. 2. 20. The more you minde these in the worke of Reformation the more glorious house you will raise for God to dwell in Fourthly Look to the superstructions when you have laid a good foundation Doe not multiply humane inventions in stead of divine Ordinances Consider what Offices what Administrations the Lord of the house hath prescribed in his Word Hee hath given Pastors and Teachers Ephes. 4. 11. Hee hath set in the Church Helpes Governments 1 Cor. 12. 28. not helpes in government as it is in some Copies mis-printed but Helpes Governments which most learned Expositors make to bee Deacons and Ruling Elders to assist the Pastors and Teachers Let us not bee afraid of admitting such as God himselfe hath prescribed there is no better way of building Gods House then out of his own Materials Fifthly Labour to approve your selves lively stones spirituall Temples to Jesus Christ then indeed you will adde very much to the building of Gods house 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. The Apostle represents Christ as the Living Stone and if you come to him as lively st●nes yee are built up a spirituall house Temple-worke will not bee advanced by dead stones Sixthly Improve your Parliament power to multiply builders in the Church Poore England complains under three great defects First Schooles and Vniversities are much decayed where builders might bee prepared Secondly Ordination is wanting whereby they might bee solemnly set apart for so great a service Thirdly Maintenance to incourage them in their work is miserably and scandalously poore in many places Reckon it your Honour to cherish the Seminaries of Religion and Learning that many Candidates for the Ministery may bee trained up there Bee pleased to quicken your Counsels in ripening the Ordinance for Ordination according to the advice of the Assembly presented to the Honourable Houses that such as are able and willing to helpe to build the Lords House may bee admitted to the work And let your wisdome contrive how the Lords builders may have a sufficient an honourable and a certain maintenance How much might an Ordinance for the reviving of the Ecoffees to recover Impropriations conduce to this happy purpose Hereby shall you bee renowned amongst those who have done much to helpe to build the old waste places and to raise up the foundation of many Generations and you shall bee called the Repairers of the breach the restorers of pathes to dwell in Isa. 58. 12. which is a promise made to such a Fast as God hath chosen As I began so I will end with the counsell of the Lord of Hosts which hee backs with much sweet incouragement to such as are ready to build his house Zach. 8. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. Let your hands bee strong feare not let your hands bee strong FINIS Errata Page 1● l. 25 for retite in words ● inwards p 17. l. 9. ● so p 21. l. 33. ● flashy See Bloody Tenent 1. Cor. 4. 7. Isa. 43. 4. 1 Chr. 22. 16. Preface Search the method of the books of Scripture amongst themselves See Ludo● Capel Hister Apostol. See Danaeus his Presace to Comment on the small Prophets See Paraeus in his Prol●gom on the Epist. to the Romans 〈◊〉 Nehemia● In reading Scripture compate Historicall and Propheticall bookes Verse 1. Note See Sleiden Comments Psal. 102. 13 14. Marke the constellation of divine Providences in Scotlands and Englands Reformation Verse 2. Note A strong antipathy against rebuilding the Temple in all ages Verse 3 4 5 6. 2 Sam. 7. 2. Division of the Text 1. Observat. V. Bish. Lake Serm. 8. on lsa. 9. 7. Exerci●● 1 A●●pia 2. Propter ordinem 3 Propter obedientian V. Paraeum in Genes c. 2. v. 1. Vse 1. Instruction Ephes. 3. 10. 1 Pet. 56. Vse 2. Caution against carnall feare in conflicting times On Marsionmoore July 2. 1644. Vse 3. Direction Ingage the Lord of Hosts by Prayer Oratio lenit ●●chryma cogit Vide Paraeum in Gen. 32. Praying Christians shall bee wrastlets Junius renders it Decres 〈◊〉 millum And the Geneva ten hundred thousand When you play single out the most prevailing Arguments Appeal to the Lord of Hosts Act as well as pray in times of trouble 2. Observ. Ponite cor vestrum super vias vestras i expendite quaeso negotiorum vestrorum eventus atque successus Inspicite penitius ut res vestiae sele habeant mox aperta videbi tis Dei vobis irati argumen ta Gualt. in Hagg. Excellency of self-considering Quest Answ. 1. Reasons why conside●ation of our wayes is so seasonable in times of trouble 1 Kings 8. 47. 2. Cor. 6. 17 18 Vse 1. Instruction Error 1. Error 2. 1. Pet. 4. 15. Aliono●umm spectores 〈◊〉 Alieni specul●tores Cypt. Vse 2. Caution Against carnall security under Gods hand Prudens ● spicit inspicit prospicit Security in sins lengthens Englands calamities Vse 3. Exhortation Let Gods hand lead you into your selves to consider your owne wayesa The Sword a grievous evill Levit. 26. 25 Jer. 9. 16. It were excellent wisdome to know the cause and remedy of Englands●vill● Plaga anini j● 1. Now tank●n patint●● mala quae cernun●●● 〈…〉 al scond●●a quae lantum ille nov●● qui ea pati●● conscientiae reclamatronem 〈…〉 peccata Pet. Mart. in locum Directions in considering your personall wayes Luk. 1. 75. Some quaeres in the considering of our publick wayes 1 Quaere 2 Quaere 3 Quaere 4 Quoere 5 Quaere 6 Quaere Jer. 93. Rom. 12. 11. Luk 10 27. a See 〈◊〉 his Chron. b See Lausbergn● 3. Observ. Compare Ezra and the Acts of the Apostles Reasons why Temple-work is not easily not suddenly accomplished Reas. 1. An Anripathy in the most against it 1 Pet. 2. 5. Reas. 2. The Devill implacably opposite to it Rev. 17. 12. Exod. 1. Matth. 2. Reas. 3. Adversaries subtile and industrious ●ach 4. 7. 4. Reas. Instruments 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Reason 5. Power and authority seldom forward to incourage it Reas. 6. God wil be acknowledged All in all therein Vse No reason to bee so much offended with out delayes difficulties in Reformation Great things done in England towards Church Reformation 1 Cor. 3. 19. Temple-work goes on in the midst of all our troubles with advantage Montanus Hierome Qui inf●a teiram habitant non possunt aedificare Templum Dei Ambros p. 12. 4 Observat. Quomodo quaerenda fuit ejus gratia nisi ut in Sanctuarium venirent ac inde rursum conscenderent animis et fide in 〈◊〉 Calv. Reas. 1. Their advantage Visible speculū praesentia meae enter v●s Calv. Reas. 2. His own glory Vse 1. Caution Two sor●s of Retarders of Temple-work 1. Prophane Atheists Isa 40. 3. 2 Carnall selfe-seekers Two sorts of underminers of Temple-work 1 Some would allow nothing by divine right in the Church I ●ame wisely to disting●●●h betwixt Christs Institutions mans prudennails 2. others would allow a Tol●ration of all Religions in the Church Remember the Covenant Vse 2. Exh●●tation Remember Gods diverting providences for our good Improve humbling providences Directions how to help● forward the building of Gods House 1 Down with the old building 2. Away with all the rubbish 3 Lay a good foundation Fundatto fundaussima sun 4 Look to the superst●●ctions 5 Approve your selves lively stones 6 Multiply Builders The ordinance for Ordination is since ●ully passed Salarium ministri sit 1 Sufficiens 2. Honorificum 3. Fixum

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