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A91808	The prophesie of Haggai, interpreted and applyed in sundry sermons by the famous and judicious divine, John Rainolds, D.D. Never before printed, beeing very usefull for these times.	Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.	1649 (1649)	Wing R143; Thomason E469_18; ESTC R205465	154,541	186

is true that temperanc● preserveth wisedome and contra as Pliny saith lib. 23. cap. 1. Sepia ob umbrator vino and therefore of Rishope and Pastors it is required that they be temperate in dy●t that so they may preserve knowledge to instruct others the w●nt of which makes the Prophet Isa 56. Denounce wo against the Pastors as blind guides wanting knowledge which he ascribes partly to their coveteousnesse and partly to rio and excesse the plagues which such draw on them for leting the people be destroyed for want of knowledge we may see in Hos 4. because thou hast refused knowledge saith the Lord I will also refuse thee that thou shalt be no Priest to mee since thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God I will also forget thy children To which if any shall reply that they have no children and therefore thinke in this respect that they shall escape the curse let them remember the curse their denounced and so Zach. 11. 17. O idle shepheard that leavest thy stocke the sword shall fall upon thy right eye c. And I would the wise consideration of these things might stir us all up to the diligent study of the Law of the Lord and faithfull delivery of the same unto his people to seed the flock of God that dependeth on us and that of our Saviour of the wise and faithfull steward ought to be a lesson for us in this case and this dutie required of those Priests a direction unto us for the performance of our duty in this behalfe A third Observation Hence is gathered by the Papists that the Papists were and so consequently the Church That is as Bellar. 3. de verbo Dei interpreteth the Pope with his counsell are soveraigne Judges of all controversies and that in their judging of the same they cannot be deceived which Chap. 4. of that book proving or rather indeavouring to prove he brings for his purpose amongst others this place where it is said aske the Priests And that of Malach. 2 Lib. 1. 2. Sacerilotis custodient scientiam The Priests lips shall preserve knowledge and they shall seeke the Law at his mouth as here the Prophet is commanded Whence he concluded only that this the Priests lips ought to doe it had been well and that which the Law would beare But whereas hereupon they would inferre that they cannot erre in doing it so making that a promise what they should doe not onely a precept what they ought to doe that very place in Malach. 2 Chap. verse 8. sheweth the contrary where it is added by way of reproofe But yee are gone out of the way yee have caused many to fall by the Law So that it is manifest by the whole drift of that place that the Priests lips should preserve knowledge for hee is the messenger of the Lord of Hoasts and therefore they that doe not so deserve punishment as followeth ver 9. Therefore I have made you contemptible But after this interpretation of the Jesuite every man in his calling almost as well as the Priests may claime a prerogative of not learning in the performance of this duty Rom. 13. of the Magistrate it is said that hee is for the praise of them that doe well What therefore shall wee say Nero being a Magistrate never failed therein or that all they that did well received a promise of Nero Againe the wife is said to be made a helpe unto her husband what may we thinke that every wife is so or that Jobs wife was so and did performe this duty to her husband Againe Mat. 7. A sonne honoureth his father and a servant his Master what therefore is there no stubborne child nor disobedient son to his parents was that Law Deut. 21. for no purpose or are all servants faithfull to their Masters and is that false of our Saviour Luke 9. O wicked servant These places shew indeede that the Magistrates should be for the praise of them that doe well that the wife should be a helpe to her husband that the child should be obedient to his father but not all of these are so alwayes And so the Priests lips should preserve knowledge as in the future tense this word is often used or imply a duty as even Ribera a papest confesseth that even Bellar from his owne men might have learned not to have abused his Reader and for the thing itself although the priests here twice answer well yet other examples shew how fowly they erred oftentimes as to note but 2. for all in Jer. 26. Concerning the Church when the prophet threatned that God would make the temple as Shilo the Priests pronounced that it was a crime worthy of death when yet the princes confessed that it was according to Law and so delivered Ieremy out of their hands And secondly Mat. 26 Concerning Christ the head of the Church when Christ said that heareafter ye shall see the sonne of man sitting at the right hand of God the high Priests rent their cloathes and pronounced it to be a blasphemy when indeed i was not and perhaps he had not falne into that error if he had not knowne our Savioar This point therfore we are not to learn by the Prophet in this place but rather because they are false teachers which come in sheeps cloathings therefore it behooveth us to be carefull that we be not ledd by false guides for such as you have heard may be blinde and if the blinde lead the blinde do not both fall into the ditch together therfore as we are commanded let us examine the spi●its Now as these points may be learned out of the answer of the Priests for skilfulnesse and faithfulnesse is required in Gods Ministers so is there here left unto all sorts a lesson of wisdome in touching of sinners out of Haggai his wise dealing with them who because the calamity was generall and the Priests in fault aswell as the people by his wise command bringeth the Priests to confesse against themselves and so convinceth them also of sinne together with them So did Nathan deale with David proposing the parable of the poore mans only sheepe in such wisdome that David gave sentence even against himselfe And had it returned into his own bosome with this personall arrest Thou art the man So Christ dealt also with the Pharasees by a parable of a vine-yard let out to a husband-man Matth. 22. and after the same manner did Amphitochius Bish of Iconium convince Theodosius the Emperor of his sin in bearing too much with an Arrian hereticke for when he had entreated the Emperour to banish the Assembly of the Arrians out of the City as utter enemies to the sonne of God Christ Jesus and the Emperour had denied his request being loath to deale so hardly with them Amphitochius was silent for a season but afterwards most wisely attempted the matter againe on this manner Entring on a time into the Emperours Pallace and beholding his sonne Radius whom he

the Lords house and after he had finished that his owne house for which God accordingly blessed them though neither of them wanted chastisements because also some times they faulted therein yet were great blessings bestowed on them both in this life vouchsafed out of the everlasting favour and blessing of God as by the monuments of them both is manifest By example of whom we are instructed to follow the Commandement of God in building his house in going at leastwise as farre as David in providing those things that were requi●●te for perfecting thereof which worke was referred to Solomon let us be moved with the example of Gods mercies on them to look for the like blessing if we follow them in well doing remembring that which is written by the Prophet how that afterward he had espoused them to himselfe in kindnesse and mercy and had made a covenant with them by this that he promiseth that he will heare the heavens and the heavens shall heare the earth and the earth shall heare Israel nay they may assure themselves not onely of these blessings but of such as are inestimably to be preferred before them whereof mention is made in the Apocalips though represented also by such things as Manna the tree of life to conquerers to them that goe forward in the building of the Temple and of the Sanctuary This exhortation pertaineth more specially indeed to the principall builders of it But it doth also belong unto all the people of the land not to the ministery or spirituality as they tearme it but to all Christians who must all be spirituall if they will all be Christians they must as lively stones be built upon the foundation they must offer up themselves a living holy and acceptable sacrifice none is exempted from this labour all must be Kings to conquer their lusts and affections that rebell against Gods Commandements all Priests to offer up spirituall sacrifice yea they are each one to go further and not onely to build themselves but others also every one one another remembring that which the Apostle exhorteth the Thessalonians Exhort one another and edefie one another Therefore all must be builders all our speech must be to edefie poudred with salt our actions rules of Godlinesse that we may be patternes for others to behold for our Saviour spake to all his disciples Ye are the salt of the earth and the light of the world not onely the Bishops and the Deacons as Philippi but also the rest of them were as lights shining forth holding forth for others salt serveth for many use● to season other things light to light others also Therefore all are to edefie not themselves but others also This exhortation made to all we ought to call to remembrance that so we are for this cause termed salt light a princely priesthood a chosen nation whom God hath sanctified to shew forth the vertue of him that hath called them and the care which they are to have one of another It was Cains voice am I the keeper of my brother But we are rather to propose unto ourselves the example of Moses when he was not yet called to be delivered of his brethrenbut prepared thereunto he laboured to reconcile his brethren that were at discord yet this exhortation concerneth principally Zerubbabel and Joshua because they be the chiefest of the Lords servants and the graces of God are most eminent in them whose heart God hath so touched that they pitty the dust the stons the ruines of Jerusalem who as trees of righteousnes moistned by Gods spirit sanctified by Gods grace that was poured upon Christ Jesus are appointed to build the old waste places to raise up the former desolations and to repaire the Cities that were desolate and waste through many desolations which words of the Prophet must teach us who are called especially to the charge of building to take delight in the stones thereof to be carefull for the raising up of them to repaire the desolate Cities of Judah and Jerusalem wherby I am moved to beseech you fathers who are inabled with gifts to performe this duty to the whole houshold that you would not onely raise up others to do this holy worke but that you with more care diligence would performe the same your selves for though you are content to heare the young sort and sometimes Eliba may speak more wisely than his elders the youth of Timothy is not to be despised yet many have more regard of the gray head aged Paul is able to speake with great gravity and therefore is wont to be heard with great reverence and profit Gideon when he had taken the K. of Midian Zeba and Zalmanna he spake to Jether his first-born to rise up and slay them but the boy drew not his sword because he feared because he was yet young then the Kings said unto Gideon rise thou and fall upon us for as the man is so is his strength our carnall lusts and carnall concupiscence whereby we are led to wickednesse fight against the spirit of God and they are the enemies of the Lord and therefore we are willed of the Apostle to mortifie our members that are on earth fornication uncleannesse the inordinate affection coveteousnesse which is Idolatry the wicked affections are as the Apostle saith limbes of one body growing so fast unto us by the depravation of our nature as our armes or leggs do to our bodies therefore these limbs of our body must be slaine the sword wherewith we must doe it is the word of God as the Apostle teacheth why these lusts are for the most part so slowly slaine there are many reasons partly because Gideon spe●keth to his first borne to slay them not boyes indeed as he was to whom Gideon spake but of riper yeares yet our sonnes though our first-borne and flower of our sonnes yet but our sons Zeba and Zalmanna knew well enough that Jether though Gideons first-borne yet he could not make so quicke dispatch in killing of them because they were to dye by his hand they were to dye a lingring death wherefore although your children are loth to say to you that you your selves are rather to rise up and performe this duty as nether Jether did to his Father Gideon give us leave as Zeba and Zalmunna to will you to rise up and runne upon your lusts and slay them for as the man is so is his strength God forbid you should be justly to be taxed with that reproof which is laid upon the great men and the Tekoils of whom when the Prophets had shewed the building of the walles of Jerusalem each sort fortified in their place but the great with he of the Tekoits put not their necks to the worke of the Lord the phrase here used noteth the kinde of labour they should have taken even to carry stones and morter a base worke that great men should be labourers in yet we see the Holy Ghost toucheth them with just