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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

they all that come thither shall be killed yes I do replied she and therefore I go the rather that I may be martered among the rest and why said he dost thou leade with thee that little child that he also answered shee may be partaker of the reward I am loth to say that which the example of this godly woman moveth me unto but I will onely speake in Latin out of the Poet Vos etenim juvenes animum geritis muliebrem illaque virgo virum But Secondly put case we were without exception in this behalfe yet let them know that are most diligent in the outward service of the Lord that this sanctifieth none in whom there is not a faithfull and an obedient heart the Prophet Isay 1. speaketh of much prayer which yet because it was done without faith The Lord accounted no better then abomination And Ezek. 33. 31. tells us of some that would come and stand before the Prophet as if they would learne the will of the Lord and yet are reproved we see that the Scribes and Pharises for frequenting Sermons and using long prayers Mat. 23. could not be reproved and yet our blessed Saviour telleth us that except our righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of them wee cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Mat. 5. But one place Micah 6. May serve to seale up all that I have taught How doth the Lord expostulate with his people My people what have I done unto thee or wherein have I grieved thee testifie against me How we may apply all this unto our selves consider we what God hath done for us and how hath he greeved us hath hee not brought us out of Egypt yea from papistry 10000 times a viler slavery then that of Egypt hath hee not by a mighty hand redeemed us when in Queene Maries time many suffered banishment and others lost their lives and sent before us Moses even our gracious Queen Elizabeth whose memory is for ever blessed and for our preservation under her hath raised up unto us many Aarons and Miriams endewed with prophets spirits to instruct us can we be forgetfull what Balack of Spaine devised against us or what Balaam of Rome answered him from Shittim under Moses whither the Moabite sent their daughters to corrupt the people a lively representation of the sending forth of the Priests and Jesuits to seduce us unto Gilgall under Ioshua where by circumci●ion the shame of Egypt was taken away from them as of late one branch thereof hath bin from us by our Joshua His Majesties Proclamation against the profanation of the Sabboth and all this that wee may know the righteousnesse of the Lord with what then shall we come before the Lord shall we offer 10000 of prayers or 10000 of Sermons c no he hath shewed us what is good and what he delighteth in more then all these that wee do justly and love mercy and humble our selves to walke with our God that we behave our selves religiously as they that are indewed with an holy spirit and are heires of life remembring what is said Esay 66. 2. That God regards him that is of a contrite spirit and that trembleth at his Word needfull it is for us to know the Word of God and to use all meanes thereto but if we do no more we do but draw neare to God with our lips and not with our hearts Sermon the Fifteenth Haggai 2. 14 15. c. Then saith Haggai if a polluted person touch any of these shall it be unclean c then answered Haggai so is this people c. IF those two types brought to convince the Jowes of error who thought they were by their sacrifices sanctified howsoever they continued disobedient and did not build the Temple as they were commanded by the Lord the former hath already taught us that the outward service of God doth sanctifie none but onely him that hath a faithfull and obedient hart And by the latter now further wee are to learne that who so hath not a faithfull and obedient heart hee is not onely not sanctified by any outward service but on the contrary both himselfe and all his actions yea even his outward service of God is impure defiled and detestable in the sight of God For the word in the originall which wee translate a polluted person doth properly signifie such an one as is uncleane and polluted by touching of a dead corps the phrase being to bee supplied from Numb 9 6. compared with Levit. 22. 4. the Law concerning whom Numb 19. is that whatsoever such an one toucheth should be unclean as here the priests confesse Wherein after the manner of the mysteries of faith expressed as by shaddowes and portractures in a darke manner by legall rites and ceremones as heretofore hath beene shewed the touching of a dead man who came unto the state of mortality by sinne Genes 3. doth import the committing of sinne which is called by the Apostle a dead worke Hebr. 9. 14. and that ceremoniall uncleannesse which did exclude out of the campe Numb 5. 1. doth imply that morall uncleannesse which doth indeed defile the man Mat. 15. and that none so uncleane shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Reve. 21. ult and lastly in that all by the Law was defiled which was touched by hand arme or legge of any such polluted person being all instruments of action Romans 6. imployeth that all whatsoever is done by the unfaithfull and disobedient is infected through the corruption of their unbelieving heart Titus 1. hence therefore it followed that the Jewes committing dead workes of impenitency security unbelief and disobedience by not building the temple according to the Lords command and so being defiled all their workes togetheor with themselves were uncleene as verse 15 the Prophet concludeth hereupon So is this people and so is this Nation before mee saith the Lord where the tearme before me is significantly added to note that although in the sight of men they were accounted holy by reason of their sacrifices yea and themselves thought so of themselves as their predecessors did for another kinde of service of fasting Isay 58. 1. yet in the sight of God who beholds all their hearts and works a farre of and not onely those that were of greatest lustre but others also whatsoever their holinesse was but hypocrisy and themselves and all they did abhominable no otherwise then the Pharises after them who did weare brasse Phylacteries and used long prayers c. and yet because they were hypocrits covetous and ambitious they had the like judgement denounced by our Saviour Luke 16. 15. ●ee are they that justifie your selves before Men but God knowes your hearts for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God and to the same effect the Lord concluding this sentence by adding and that which they offer here is uncleane doth seem to refute as by name that wherein the Iewes hoped to be

sanctified and which they most esteemed holy both in respect of the thing viz. their offering on the Altar Exod. 29. 30. wherof all were holy and some most holy so that their service of God in this kinde was by an excellency called the service of God witnesse the Apostle to the Hebrewes and Romans and also in regard of the place where they offered them here in Jerusalem the place chosen of purpose to that end called therefore the holy City in Matthew and greatly praysed in sundry of the Psalmes for that respect Seeing then the people and whole Nations of the Jewes yea all their workes even their very sacrifices offered in Jerusalem were unclean and detestable in the sight of God because they had not faithfull and obedient hearts but did neglect the building of the Temple commanded by the Lord the lesson hence to bee gathered is plaine which in the beginning wee mentioned viz. that whosoever hath not a faithfull and an obedient heart himselfe and all his workes even his divine Service of God is impure and uncleane in the sight of God This in the carnall sacrifices as in the shaddow doth Isay teach Isay 66. 3. declaring that who so is not of a contrite spirit as onely the faithfull are to tremble at Gods Word If hee kill a bullock hee was as if hee flew a man c. for in these words expresly noting all the severall sacrifices that the Jewes did offer as greater beastes and lesser meate offerings and incense and comparing them wi●h dogs flesh and swines blood things forbidden by the Law nay to the murthering of a man or the blessing of an Idole which his soule abhorr● hee plainly shewes how detestuble the Lord holds all these where was wanting a faithfull and an obedient heart in them that offer the same also concerning spirituall sacrifices of Prayers and of Sermons preached or heard doth the spirit else where witnesse as of Prayers Prov. 28. 9. hee that turneth away his eare from hearing the Law even his prayer shall bee abominable of Sermons preached Psalme 50. but unto the wicked saith God what hast thou to doe to take my words in thy mouth and hatest to be reformed of Sermons heard likewise Ezek. 20. and also Ezek. 33. 31. where first the Elders and then the people are reproved because they came and sate before the Prophet as if they would learne the will of the Lord and yet their hearts went after their covetousnesse and they did not that they were injoyned finally all the actions of the unfaithfull whatsoever are censured by two rules of the Apostle 1. In respect of the things themselves that are done Rom. 14. ult whatsoever is not of faith is sinne and the 2. In regard of the persons that do them Heb. 11. 6. without faith it is impossible to please God c. so undoubted an axium proved by the Scripture is this which here our Prophet teacheth that the best workes of men are of themselves uncleane in Gods sight without a faithfull heart c. Whence may be confuted an●er or of the Prophets who howsoever the ancient Fathers Ierome Gregory Prosper and especially Austin proving the point not onely by those two places last alleadged out of St. Paul but also by that of our Saviour Matth. 7. a corrupt Tree cannot but bring forth bad fruit do hold that all the workes of the unregenerate done before faith are sinne and deserve Gods Wrath yet the Papists I say in their authenticall counsell of Trent Sescion 6. cano 7. Pelagian-like stick not to pronounce That if any man shall say that all the workes done before institution are to be accounted properly sinnes or do deserve the hatred and wrath of God let him be accursed A curse heretically and blasphemously uttered by Antichristian impes whose faces are set against Heaven and their tongues walke through the Earth for all works done without faith are uncleane in Gods sight as here Haggi teacheth us but before in justification no workes are done with faith for then we are justified and made the Sonnes of God when we believe Iohn 1. therefore whatsoever workes are done before in justification are properly uncleane and do defile but whatsoever is uncleane and doth defile is properly sinne Mark 7. 10. and 1 Cor. 8 now God hateth all sinne Zach. 8 13. he being just in all his wayes Psalme 145. yee all workes done before in justification are properly sinne and deserve Gods wrath nor can they be pure whiles the heart the roote or fountaine whence they proceed is impure and corrupt now the heart is only purified by faith Act. 15. 9. and all unbelievers even in their minde and conscience are defiled Titus 1. 15. the Papists therfore herein curse the Prophets nay the Lord of life who here himselfe spake by the Ministery of his Prophet And shamelesse is that shift which Ribera the Jesuit maketh writing one this place ● 76. first saying that the Prophet doth not speake of all the Works of the unregenerate but only of their sacrifices from the which glosse if the Text it self did not refute it yet where it is plainly added and all whatsoever they do yet St. Ieroms authority which in other places he vvould seem to esteem Should have at least occasioned him to have forborn and to have rather passed it over in silence then so to have gainsayd him and the Text for omnia cuncta quae agit saith Ierom nam de cunctis loquitur profanantur Nay Ierome not so content in generall only to avouch it applies it in particular to the works of both Iewes Heretichs and Gentiles and sayth that whatsoever they do not only vvhatsoever they offer their vowes their prayers their charity and Almes-deeds c. all are unclean for although th●se actions seem in shew to be good are so indeed in their own nature yet because they are touched by him that is polluted they are unclean But as for us beloved vvho are taught for his sake to bear reproaches and to endure curses patiently that vve may become conformable unto him according to that of the Prophet the rebuks of them that rebuked thee are fallen on me let us I say against all Pelagian spirits hold constantly vvhat here the Prophet teacheth us c. and let the princely Prophet David joyn vvith Haggai in interpreting this ceremoniall type of Moses vvhere Psame 51. having confessed sins actuall and originall vers 7. he prayeth purge mee with hysope and I shall bee clean No vvay to be made clean but by Hysop novv vvhat that purging vvith Hysop meant vve may understand by the ceremony Num. 19. of the red Kovv burnt vvithout the hoste the figure of our Saviours sacrifice as the Apostle interprets it Hebrewes 13 vvho to sanctifie us suffered vvithout the City And St. Iohn plainly setteth dovvn that vvith by allusion only vvas signified in the figure vvhere 1 John 1. 7. he saith that it is the blood of Christ