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A73478	Haggeus the prophet Where-vnto is added a most plentifull commentary, gathered out of the publique lectures of D. Iohn Iames Gryneus, professor of diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Basill, and now first published, faithfully translated out of Latin into English, by Christopher Fetherstone student in diuinitie.; Bible. O.T. Haggai. English.	Fetherston, Christopher.; Grynaeus, Johann Jacob, 1540-1617.	1586 (1586)	STC 2790; ESTC S125271	158,555	366

HAGGEVS the Prophet Where-vnto is added a most plentifull commentary gathered out of the publique Lectures of D. Iohn Iames Gryneus professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Basill and now first published Faithfully translated out of Latin into English by Christopher Fetherstone student in Diuinitie LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger dwelling in Paternoster-row at the signe of the Golden Anchor 1586. ¶ TO THE RIGHT HOnorable and my very good Lord Iohn Lord Saint Iohn Baron of Bletsoe Grace and Peace with great encrease of honour WHen I call to minde right honorable the buildinge of the Lordes Temple by the Iewes of elder dayes and there-withall take a vew of the truth of that materiall temple of the Church I meane generally and more particularly here in England this angle of the world me thinks I may full wel compare these two buildings together whether wee respect the causes inforcinge or the hinderances lettinge or the punishments by the Lorde inflicted for not going forwarde in his woorke For the causes which ought to haue bene as prickes goades spurs to the Iewes were these principally First the choise which the Lord had made of them For seeing that the Lord had chosen them out of all nations countries tongues and people for of all the trees of the wood God chose one onely Vyne of all the fowles of the ayre one onely Doue of all the nations of the world one onely Iudea of all the cities of the world Hierusalem alone that he might build his Temple on high and put his name there and seeing that being iealouse of his glory carefull for his worship which the Heathen coulde not giue him for they had not called vpō his name but Hierusalem was the place of his rest there would hee be called vpon and for this cause would hee haue the Temple built at the first it stoode them vpon if they woulde escape the crime of impietie and ingratitude to build the Lordes house Another the remembrance of their deliuerance out of their late captiuitie where for solace they had sorrowe and pro socco saccum where in steed of their owne vynes which they some-times had and vnder which they were wont to sit they had Wyllowe-trees where-on they hanged their harps as being vnable to sing the Lords song Seeing that the Lord had deliuered them out of a nation so polluted as was this where they saw those Gods worshipped which neither they nor their fathers knewe had brought them backe againe to their owne countrie that they might worship the liuing God according to his law and that in his holy Temple what madnes mooued them to delay the building of the Lordes house If the consideration of those things could not haue serued to enforce them yet the other ought to haue drawen them as that Cyrus the king of Persia had cōmanded them and that the Lord of heauen had giuen them this in charge and had for this cause shortned their captiuitie But they were letted and that first outwardly and secondly inwardly Outwardly by the enimies of Iuda and Hierusalem who when the Lyons force coulde not preuaile assayed by foxes crafte to hinder the Lords building Inwardly they were le ts to them-selues because they sought their owne thinges and not the thinges of the Lord they preferred their owne affaires before the Lordes their owne buildings before the Lords house and their feete were swift to build their owne sieled houses where in they them-selues might dwell but they went with leaden heeles about the place of the Lords rest which lay in ruinous maner But as they had sinned so were they punished and that euen in those thinges which they preferred before the Lords affaires For the Lord with-drewe his blessing it pleased him to inflict a curse vpon them which Haggai doth in ample maner set downe namely that they did sowe much gathered in but a litle they did eate but they were not satisfied they did drink but their thirst was not quenched they were cloathed but they felt no warmth those which hyred them-selues out for wages receiued wages as in a bottomelesse bagge which did profit them nothing These were their plagues and many moe which to explicate I need not for why they sufficiently expound themselues But nowe let vs looke into our owne state Though the Lorde hath not chosen vs alone out all nations to call vpon his name yet hath it pleased him to call vs out of darknes into light to bring vs from horrible superstition and Gentilisme which raigned some times in this our nation and to giue vs his woorde to be a light to our paths and a lanterne to our feete in this dark and misty world and therefore are we bound to build a Church vnto the Lord as were the Iewes to build a temple that in the same the Lord may bee worshipped seeing the wall of seperation is taken away and the houre is come that neither in the mounte neither at Hierusalem the Lord is worshipped but the true worshippers doe worship him in spirit and truth Againe though our captiuity from Babyloin of the Assyrians hath not bene turned as the riuers in the south yet hath the Lorde brought vs in some measure from the captiuity of that romish Babylon out of which we ought so to depart that we ought to touche none of her vncleane thinges and that to the ende wee may worship him sincerely and with an holie worship and therefore ought we to build the Lords Temple Againe though Cyrus the king of Persia hath not enioyned vs this thinge yet Cyrus the Lordes sheepheard as the prophet tearmeth him hath cōmaunded vs and why doe we not then erect the ruinous walls of Hierusalem But alas for woe too many are our lettes For outwardely wee are letted by the enimies of Iuda and Hierusalem the papists I meane who though they can not by violence hinder our labour because the Lord hath cōpassed in his Vine with a brasen wall whose hedge is not yet broken downe yet by secret meanes they vnderminde our worke because they wil beare a showe of building they build with vntempered morter or rather vnder colour of building a Temple to the Lord they set vp a Synagogue to Satan yea by sattle meanes they steale away those stones which we shoulde lay in the Lords buildinge that they may bee corner stones in their ruinous worke These are no small lets but the more the pitty we haue as great amonge our selues And the first of these seemeth to bee the silence of those which haue some-times laboured painefullie whose worke is in daunger to decay if storme and tempest shoulde arise An-other let there is and that is the labourers want their wages by reason of the vnsatiable couetousnes of the men of our daies which will not suffer them to let goe the spoiles of the Church impropriations I meane Againe amongst the builders there bee those which fill the

the poore if other helpes doe fayle then that the sacralegious enemie shoulde carrie it away Shall not the Lorde say why hast thou suffered so manie poore people to starue And yet thou haddest gold to buy them foode withall Why were so manie prisoners ledde into captiuitie and not redeemed Why were they slayne It had beene better for thee to haue saued the vessells of the liuing then of metals To this purpose serueth the 17. Law in the booke Lib. 1. Tit. 5. l. Sancimus If need shall require in redeeming of prisoners then wee doe graunt licence both to sell the foresaide thinges and also to lay them to gage forasmuch as it is no absurde thing to preferre the soules of men before all matters vessels and garmentes 6 These wordes of Ambrose doe teach vs what answere we ought to make to those men which crie out that the sacraments are dispoiled of their dignitie if golden vessels siluer vessels be not vsed in the administration thereof I was affraid wouldst thou say least the Temple of God want his furniture He would answere The Sacramentes doe not require gold neither doe these thinges please in golde which are not bought with gold The ornament of the Sacramentes is the redemption of prisoners And these are precious vessels indeed which redeeme the soules from death c. in the same Chapter 7 Therefore if wee doe vse in our Churches vessels of golde and siluer in the administration of the Lordes supper yet let vs vse them without all boasting and opinion of the necessitie and price of the matter thereof Neither let vs so deale that that Ecclesiasticall adage may bee verified in vs. In times past there were golden Priestes and wooden vessels but nowe there bee wooden priestes and golden vessels 8 Neither let vs condemne nor finde faulte with the reformed Churches in the number whereof is the Tigurine Church which doe imitate the thriftines and simplicitie of the primitiue Church doe vse wooden vessels yet such as are clenly and fit for the purpose For if wee thinke that the Lords supper cannot be decently ministred vnlesse wee vse vessels of gold and syluer why are wee not also desirous to haue fontes and lauers of gold and syluer Vnlesse peraduenture wee thinke that we ought to make more accompt of the Lordes supper and of the administration thereof then of Baptisme which is the Lauer of our regeneration 43. Lect. Aprill 29. Verse 10. The glorie of this latter house shall bee greater then the glorie of the former sayth the Lorde God of hostes and in this place will I giue peace sayth the Lorde GOD of hostes 7 Argument drawen from the comparing of the first Temple and the seconde together THat Temple is to be builded with all readinesses and diligence whose glorie shall bee greter thē was the glorie of that first house builded by Salomon the king For there is no cause why any man shoulde obiect that it will bee but base and of no price and estimation But the glorie of this seconde Temple will bee greater then the glory of the first as the Lorde himselfe doth testifie Of the vnlooked for woorkes of God It is sayde in the holy Scriptures that God doeth oftentimes bring to passe wonderfull thinges both because in rewarding of godlines ordinarily and punishing of vngodlines hee setteth vppe the méeke and pulleth downe the prowde and also because hee restoreth thinges which are almost quite gone to decay contrary to all mens expectation and those men which séeme most of all to florishe doeth hee in his his iust iudgement throwe downe to the grounde Psal 75. 6. 7. Promotion commeth neyther from the east nor from the west nor yet from the wildernesse For God is the gouernour hee bringeth lowe and hee exalteth The meditating vppon these workes of God ought to nourish and kindle in vs feare of God and the hope of hauing these miseries mitigated wherewith wee are oppressed The Iewes thought in times past that it coulde neuer come to passe that the latter temple shoulde bee corespondent to the former in any poynt Neyther was there any other cause frō which this imagination did spring saue this because they did looke vnto thēselues and vnto the smal wealth of the Iewish people and not vnto God But the Prophet in the name of the Lord God of hostes telleth the Iewes of litle faith a thing that they litle loked for namely that the glory of this temple would be greater then euer was the glory of the first Temple And howe often are wee brought to the passe in time of aduersitie wherevnto Dauid doth confesse him-selfe to haue bene brought Psal 31. 22. But I saide in my hast I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes not-withstanding thou hast heard the voice of my praier whilest I cried vnto thee Let vs therefore endure and so much as wee are able let vs saue our selues in time of prosperitie The Church of GOD in Germany is marueilously troubled in these our dayes that by the counsels and endeuours of these men which had rather bee Lordes ouer Gods Heritage and enforce all other men to receiue their doctrine then to bée examples vnto the flocke But let vs valiantly beare the vniust preiudices 1. Pet. 5. ● excommunications of these princely Potentates and looking vnto the iudgmēts of God whereof hee often sheweth manifest tokens let vs waite for the mitigation of these euills For God is faithfull and hee will not suffer vs to bée tempted aboue that which wee are able to beare Hée neither slumbreth nor sléepeth which kéepeth Israell Therefore to him alone let vs commit the Church and all our selues also 8 Argumēt drawen from the plenty of peace and of the giftes of the holy ghost And in this place will I giue peace saith the Lord God of hostes Vnder the woorde peace hée comprehendeth by Synecdoche all manner of spirituall giftes For the Iewes did not enioy earthly peace longe and the second Temple was often-times spoyled and at length was it set on fire and ouerthrowen But the prophet Haggeus reasoneth thus God will giue peace in this Temple hee will cause the gospell to bée preached hee will powre out the spirit of grace and of praiers Wherefore you must apply the holy woorke that you may obey your chiefest good thinge the Lord your God commaunding you to builde this second Temple Obiect The Lord Iesus saith The houre commeth when-as yee shall neither in this mountayne neyther at Hierusalem worshipp the Father Therefore God did not geue peace Iohn 4. 21. in that place For doubtles there can no peace be giuen with-out praier faith and other gifts Ans I denie the consequent and my reason is this because there is ignoratio elenchi ignorance of an argument For these sayings are not vttered both concerning one time God gaue peace in that place in that hee preserued and enriched wonderfully with the plenty of the gifts of

shalt decrée they shall be established as instruments which are lawfully sealed by an other metaphor did Isayas the prophet signifie the same authoritie speaking of the chusing of Eliachim into y● place of Sobna Isay ●2 22. And I will put the key of the house of Dauid vpon his shoulder and he shall open and ther shall be none which shall shut and hee shall shut and there shall be none that shall open If you will knowe any thing which is worthie the knowing concerning the force of gold-ringes read the first chapter of the thrée and thirty booke of Plinie his naturall historie Let it be sufficient for vs to learne by this place that we must be subiect to the magistrate We knowe the verses of Philemon All seruants subiect are to Kinges Kinges downe before the Gods must fall The Gods to fate are subiect eke Small thinges to great are also thrall But we as we doo acknowledge and in spirit worship one God who is Lord ouer all thinges so doe we acknowledge him to be most free and not subiect to any Stoicall fate The efficient cause 2. The Lorde himselfe will extoll vnto great dignitie his seruant Zerubabell The Position As God doth punish proud princes with rebuke shame so doth he also crowne the humble with glorie and honour Psal 107. 4. Hee powreth contempt vpon princes and maketh them to wander in the wildernes wherin there is no way Psal 84. 12. For the Lord God is the sunne and shield vnto vs the Lord will giue grace and glory and no good thing will he with-hold from them that walke vprightlie Although this be but a short verse yet doth it containe fiue benefites which are sent by God First the gift of vnderstanding wherewith the sunne of righteousnes Christ Iesus doth illuminate our mindes according to that saying I am the light of the worlde he that followeth me walketh not in darkenes but he shall haue the light of life Ioh. 8. 12. The second is Gods protection in the middest of daūgers Because thou Lorde shalt blesse the iust thou shalt compasse him about with good wil as with a shielde Psal 5. 13. The Lord is my shield and the horne of my saluation and my lifter vp The thirde is authoritie which the prophet calleth glorie The fourth is grace or the good will and fauour of the subiects towards their superiors The fift all manner of good things aswell priuatiue as positiue as some doe terme them The internall cause is the chusing to the office y● The internall cause of a ciuill magistrate I haue chosen thee sayth the Lorde In like sorte it is saide of the chusing vnto the office of the Apostleship Haue not I chosen you twelue yet one of you is a deuill Ioh. 6. 70. By this place we learne that we ought not to take vpon vs any function vnlesse God do those vs thereunto according to that saying A man can receiue nothing vnlesse it bee giuen him from heauen Ioh. 3. 27. And we must iudge of the calling by the gifts which are requisit necessarie for the due executing of the office Of the third thing namely of the veritie of this figure No man doth better expound the veritie of the figure whereof we haue brieflie spoken then Paule the Apostle whose wordes are these 5. Let the same minde be in you that was euen in Christ Iesus 6 Who being in the forme of God thought it no robberie to be equall with God 7 But he made himselfe of no reputation and tooke on him the forme of a seruant and was made like vnto man and was founde in shape as a man 8 He humbled himselfe and became obedient vnto the death euen the death of the crosse 9 Wherefore God hath highly exalted him and giuen him a name aboue euerie name 10 That at the name of Iesus euerie knee should bowe both of thinges in heauen and thinges in earth and thinges vnder the earth 11 And that euerie tongue should confesse that Iesus is the Lorde vnto the glorie of God the father Phil. 2. The similitude is this As God will both marueylouslie defend and also wonderfully exalt in due time his faithfull seruaunt Zerobabell though all the Samaritanes and other his enimies say nay so in time to come shall he extoll vnto great dignitie the Messias when hee hath humbled himselfe being made obedient vnto his father euen vnto the death of the crosse c. We see that the Lorde did not onely put his seruaunt Zerubabell in good hope by one and the same oracle of obtayning ciuill and other good thinges but also he foretelleth that the Messias shal be reuealed and that al the Church shal be enriched with his fulnesse Wee learne that the goodnes and power of God is not to be measured by our weake faith but that we must be certainly perswaded that God is both able and also will if it be for his glorie and our saluation doe more and greater thinges for vs then wee can promise to our selues through the imbecillitie of our faith FINIS LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger dwelling in Paternoster-row at the signe of the Golden Anchor 1586.

had foretold as touching the destruction of the Niniuites shall hee therefore be accompted in the number of the false Prophets An. I answere that the threatning of Ionas had the condition of repentaunce annexed thereunto which beeing fulfilled wée sée that there fell out nothing contrarie to the threatening There is therefore in this argument afallacy forasmuch as that which was spoken condicionally is here taken as if it had beene spoken simplie But all the godly do knowe what place Ionas is worthie to haue amongest the Prophetes of the Lorde so that there is no cause why wée should goe about to finde a fault where there is none to be found 4. To whome the Prophet Haggeus was sent HE was sent vnto Zerubabel the sonne of Salthiel the captaine of the Iewes and vnto 4. Lect. 23 oct 1579. Iehosua the sonne of Iehosadack the high Prieste Wée haue noted in this place two thinges First a personal description of two most notable men namely Zerubabel and Iosua and secondly the counsell of the holy Ghost which admonisheth vs of weightie matters Of Zerubabel 1 This worde Zerubabel doth signifie void of confusion as certayne doe affirme Philo doeth saye that hee was also called Barachias Forasmuch as thinges are signified by A position names it becommeth vs to be delighted in the most excellent names And such are those which doe resemble godlinesse and doe pricke men forwarde earnestly to followe the same 2 Zerubabel had for his father Salthiel His father which issued out of the most noble stocke of Dauid the King A position concerning Nobilitie It is only liberty with God not to serue sinne and it is onely nobilitie with God to excell in vertues * Hier. ad Celantiam 3 The office of Zerubabel was this he was His office the captaine of the Iewes who was also borne in the yeere of the worlde 3410. When he was but seauentéene yeare olde he brought a part of the Iewes backe from Babylon vnto Hierusalem He executed the office of a Captaine 58. yeeres He began to vse the ministerie of Haggeus the Prophet when hee was 30. yeeres of age The multitude haue néede to haue a captaine A position which will bée peaceable and prudent that hee may keepe these which are vnder him Plato lib. 1. de leg knit together with the bonde of friendship and that he may be carefull ouer them Of Iosua the high Priest THis word Iehosua doth signifie a Sauiour His name or Deliuerer Math. 1. 21. When the ministers are ioyned with Christ A position they are saide to saue themselues and others also 1. Tim. 4. 16. But when they are compared vnto him they are found to be nothing 1. Cor. 3. 7. 2 His fathers name was Iehosadac A His father most excellent name forasmuch as it doth signifie the Righteousnes of the Lorde A position Euen the princely Priesthoode of God doeth acknowledge no other cause of their saluation sa●● onely the righteousnes of God His office 3 Hée was the high priest of the Iewes Hée beganne to execute the office of the Priesthood in the yeere of the worlde 3428. and hee was chiefe Priest 36. yeeres Then being sent of a long ambassage vnto Darius the king of the Persians and sonne of Histaspes he continued therein eight yeeres which being ended hee became high priest againe for the space of twentie yeeres A position 1 Those which serued in the Priestes office and which doe nowe serue in the ministerie they doe not serue them-selues onely but the Church 2 The Priestes of the Iewes did take vpon them certayne ciuill offices but the ministers of the Church must onely bee occupied about the administration of the worde and Sacraments Of the drift and purpose of the holy Ghost TO th ende wee may shewe the drifte and meaning of the holy Ghost we will first of all reduce the argument vnto certayne positions then secondly we will handle in fewe words a briefe introduction concerning Christ Iesus 1 First God is the onely reformer of those A position misorders which are in the Church and common wealth Which thing is proued first by example The worde of the Lorde was by the hand of Haggeus ● Example ver 1. Whence we gather that this reformation of misorders was taken in hande God being the author thereof 2 Secondly it is proued by reason for God is not the aucthor of misorder but of order and decencie séeing that hee is both most wise and most good Let those therefore especially respect God and not man who are desirous all misorder being quite taken away to haue that good order which GOD hath appointed to bee put in place thereof that is which are desyrous to prouide for the profit and tranquillitie of all estates And here God bringeth to passe this reformation 2. Position by the meanes of others for the most parte vsing the ministerie of the Prophets and other fellowe labourers This is proued by authoritie The Lord doth 1. Authoritie nothing vnlesse hee shall reueale his secrete intent vnto his seruantes the Prophets If the lyon roare who shall not be affraide The most mightie God hath spoken who shal not prophesie Amos. 3. 7. 8. Secondly it is prooued by example The Lord made knowen his will concerning the building of the Temple by che hande of Haggeus the prophet c. God beginneth first to worke this reformation 3. Position in the heads that he may afterward reforme the members Reasons 1 For as the beginning of moouing procéedeth from the head so the health vertue and integritie of the superiours are not only an example vnto the inferioures but they are also a great commoditie and help vnto them 2 Furthermore such is the mutuall agréemēt of the head and the members that when as the head aketh all the rest of the members are out of frame when it aketh not all the other members are in better case For the head is not onely the place of vnderstanding reasoning and of memory but also the shop of all the Senses both internall and externall In like sorte ought those to excell in the giftes of the minde which are gouernours in the Church and common-wealth Whiles God doth worke this reformation he 4. Position doth not seperate those orders which are straitely lincked together I call the ecclesiasticall function and the ciuill function the orders which are lincked together the seminarie whereof is the good discipline kept in priuate houses God did adioyne vnto Moses Aaron to bee vnto him a helper when as the people of Israell was to bee brought out of Egypt Such fellowes in office were Zerubabel and Iehosua of whom our prophet doth here make mention God will haue the ciuill Magistrate to doe 5. Position that which appertaineth vnto his office and him which beareth an office in the Church to do that which belongeth vnto his office so that