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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

Godly conversation upon the foundation of an holy and sound faith The Apostle Paul likewise to Titus delivereth the same thing though in fewer words The grace of God saith he that bringeth salvation unto all men hath appeared and teacheth us that we should deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and that we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present evil world which words would God they were so well marked of us as they are continually rehearsed in our Assemblies soberly righteously godly containing the substance of all religion Soberly in respect of our owne vessels righteously in respect of other men godly in respect of God himselfe In the duties touching the which three the whole law and the Prophets consist neither must we only take care to build up our selves in this sort but others also For so Saint Iude also commandeth and have compassion of some and others save with feare pulling them out of the fire Though if Saint Iude taught it not yet we may learne it out of Saint Paul when he willeth us to exhort one another for every one of us is the temple of Gods holy spirit and every one of us is exhorted to build up this temple according to the grace which is given him Not all indeed as the ministers who are specially given for the gathering of the Saints together for the worke of the ministery and for edification of the body of Christ but in some sort by example and word at due times and seasons according to the measure of grace given to them and this do the godly in the prophecy of Esau where they are brought in one exhorting encouraging and calling upon another Come let us go up to the house of the Lord and he will teach us his wayes and we will walke in his paths And David rejoyced when he heard them say Come let us go up to the house of the Lord our feet shall stand in thy Gates O Jerusalem but with us there is so little care had hereof that men take scorne to be advertised of their duty especially by their inferiours yea that they who should advertise others and be advertised themselves too are most carelesse of all men and some there are so wretchlesse and carelesse in this respect of going up and bringing timber and building the house of the Lord that they no whit regard it as though it no whit appertained to them to build others but let us learne that it was the voice of Cain am I my brothers keeper Reuben though none of the best sonnes of Jacob yet when he saw that Ioseph was not in the pit he rent his clothes and returning to his brethren said the childe is not yonder and I alas whither shall I goe This then is the first point that we are to mark that they who are willed to go up and build are not Zerubbabel and Ioshua onely but all the remnant of the people and all faithfull Christians are bound to build up themselves and others For both we are the body of Christ others also both which are noted by the name of the Temple both in the 1 Cor. 6. 19. and 2 Cor. 6. 16. In the former place he speaking to every one saith that their bodyes are the temples of the Holy Ghost and in the latter he speaking to the Congregation saith they are the temple of God The second point to be noted is that we are not onely commanded to build but that with industry also and paines for the Prophet saith go up to the mountaine bring wood and timber and build this house wherin by proposing the particularities of the paines difficulty and labours he telleth them that though indeed it be painefull and hard yet it is the duty which God requireth of them To goe up a hill is not very pleasant but to go up having carriage burthen must needs be troublesome now the Prophet telleth them that they were not onely to go up a hill but to carry up timber thither also and it seemeth the Prophet would mention the hardest thing for what was it to bring timber In the third of Ezra 7. it is declared how they gave mony to the Carpenters and fellers of wood and meat and drinke and oyle unto them of Tyrus and Sidon to bring them Caedar-wood from Libanon to the Sea to Ioppa so that if we consider the difficulties First in felling of the trees at Libanon then of bringing them to the Sea to Ioppa then the carriage of them to Jerusalem and the bringing of them up to the mountaine we shall finde that it was a matter of no smal weight nor importance and yet all this was but little in comparison of that which they are lastly commanded namely to build the house especially considering that Salomon having so many workmen all things ready prepared for the building was yet as we read some seven yeares in building it when therefore he saith Go up bring timber and build the house he teacheth us that if we meane to build this temple of the Lord we must not do as they who take their ease and stretch themselves on their beds and drink wine in bowles killing Oxen and sheep and eating the fattest of the heard anoynting themselves with oyle and singing of songs to the instruments of musick but we are to take paines to fetch timber and to build he that will not do this is no workeman for the house of the Lord a hard speach for us my brethren who are like them that are troubled with the greene sicknesse that we cannot well travell on plaine ground much lesse climbe up mountains with burthens on our backs or like the Roman gentleman who when others were busied in military exercises laid him downe and tumbled in the grasse saying V●inam hoc esset laborare O would that this were to take paines imagining so many difficulties and adversaries to come against us if we should set our selves about it as though we were the persons described by Salomon The slothfull man saith a Lyon is in the way a Lyon in the streets as the door turneth upon his hinges so doth the sluggard on his bed the slothfull man hideth his hand in his bosome and it grieveth him to put it againe to his mouth The sluggard is wiser in his owne conceit then seven men that can render a reason But these are slothfull men Saint Paul is of another mind of another spirit who fought with beasts at Ephesus and was not afraid to meet a Lyon in the streets of Rome from whose mouth he also saith that the Lord delivered him yea who was contented that he might do this worke to suffer imprisonment stripes hunger nakednesse even death as it were often as he sheweth in the 2 to the Corinthians 11. furnished indeed with a greater measure of grace then all or any of us are to looke for but according to the measure which we have

nought that Solomon prayed Proverbs 30. Give me neither poverty nor riches And Deut. 23. we see that when the people waxed full they spurned against the Lord. But alwaies with sufficiency and with a spirituall glory greater yet in this li●e and an immortall weight of glory in the life io come Therefore to those that lead a religious christian and a godly life that indeavour to build upon themselves and others in an holy building to the Lord is this promise made that this later house shall be more glorious than the former They before Christ having but a taste in comparison of that whereof we have the full fruition this is it that Solomon hath Proverb 8. exalt wisedome and it will exalt thee and he learned it from his Father who taught that God would give both grace and glory Psal 84. 11. and no good thing will I with hould from those that walke uprightly no good thing nothing that if indeed good for them with that moderation 1 Cor. 14. the Apostle saith of himselfe and such as he was that they were a gasing stock unto Angels and men hungry and thirsty naked and buffeted but 2 Cor. 4. he addeth that those small afflictions should worke in them a farre more excellent and eternall weight of glory so that God workes alwayes that which is most of al for our good therefore in respect of those other greater good things these lesser are denyed whosoever saith Christ shall loose Father and Mother or Friends for my name sake he shall even in this life receive a hundred fould but with persecutions in the world to come life eternall He that hath given us his sonne how should he not give us all things together with him the Lord can deny nothing that is good to them that walk uprightly but then we must walke uprightly and in so doing our glory shall be the greater For if we build the Lords house then wee glorifie and honour him and their it is written them that honour me I will honour saith the Lord. 1 Sam. 2. 30. Now the last promise and in this house will I give peace is made of a seed of peace c. not onely that discention shall cease but that the heavens shall heare the earth to give her dew and the earth shall heare the corne to give her fruit c. and they shall heare Israel so travel in the building of the house of the Lord and the service of him as they ought which may put us in mind that we may feare that we have not laboured so as we ought in the building of the house of the Lord forasmuch as there be so many breaches and vents among us and in the seventh chapter the Prophet tells them that before when they built not the Lords house but every one his owne that the heaven staid it selfe from dew and the earth her selfe from her fruite there was no peace nay saith Zach. 8. 10. Before those dayes there was no hire for man nor beast neither was there any peace to him that went out nor to him that came in because of the affliction for saith God I set every one against his neighbour and that by the just judgement and vengeance of God because they travelled not in the building of the house of the Lord. From whence are wars and contentions saith James are they not hence even from your owne lusts and pleasures that fight in your members And are not our contentions to maintaine our lusts and our pleasures also I would to God we did consider aright the roote of them It s an old Proverb to fish in troubled waters Cleon in Aristophanes was told that he dealt like them that fished for Eles for as they when the lake is calme and cleare can take nothing and therefore do they trouble it and stirre up the mud and slime so when the City was quiet he could get nothing and therefore he sought to make strife in the City if any such Cleons be amongst us I would they would remember that they are called not to be fishers of Eles but to be fishers of Men not of such slimy stuffe which Hab. 2. is called thicke clay but for the soules of men which are most pretious and which they must seeke for as for the wisdom of such as fish for Eles it descendeth not from above as St. James saith but is earthly sensuall carnall devilish such as do not consider that the Lord saith Silver is mine and Gold is mine and I will give peace in this house But if St. James cannot serve to perswade then let them yet remember what a heathen man worthy their remembrance saith Varro by name whom Austin so commends Distractione civium saith he languescit praecipium civitatis bonum est incipit aegrotare deflorescere out of all controversie the Prophet having promised peace unto them when the Temple and house of the Lord was built doth shew plainely that we doe not build the Lords house because we are not at peace But is by the example and promise wee hope to have peace let us looke to be fishers of Men and not of Ecles then shall we bee sure to have prosperous successe and to bee inriched as the Jewes were afterward wo be to him saith God to Jehocakim that buildeth his house with unrighteousnesse and his chambers by wrong Did not thy father Josiah eate and drinke and prosper when he executeted Judgement and Justice If men could be content with moderation as Josiah was and not seeke to justifie their inordinate lusts and affections as many doe then might they eate and drinke and prosper as Josiah did But when they begin with Jehoiakim to follow after their owne wicked lusts then it s not moderate eating and drinking that will serve their turne They thinke they must shift for more by other meanes the sentence that St. Iames addeth upon his exhortation and reprofe of their contentions Iam. 3. 15. is worthy our remembrance vi●le the fruit of righteousnesse i● sown● in pence to them that exercise peace wherein the former place peace is taken for Gods love and favor accumpanied with temporall and spirituall blessings and in the latter for peace and concord and so doubtlesse Gods eternall peace which passeth all understanding is sowne to them that make peace yet they must waite as the husbandman doth for fruit and not thinke to have it straightway but certainely they may expect it for the Lord hath promised that as many as sow righteousnesse shal have the fruite of peace in this life and in the life to come life everlasting But I beseech you to remember that which is prophesied to come to passe in the time of the Gospel To breake our swords into mattocks and our speares into sithes let us lay aside the instruments of war and take unto us the instruments of Gods husbandmen and labourers and so build the house of God that the Lord may