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A sermon preached at Cern, in the county of Dorset, the 18 day of September 1623 at the visitation of the right reuerend father in God, the Lord Bishop of Bristoll by Robert Lougher pastor of Mapowder.
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Lougher, Robert.
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for brethren to dwell together in vnitie It is like the precious oyntment that was powred vpon the head of Aaron which stayed not there but ranne downe to his beard and yet yet stayed not there but trickled downe euen to the skirts of his cloathing signifying how vnitie and amitie should passe throughout all the members of the mysticall body of Christ From top to toe from the head to the foote from Zerubbabel the Prince that sits vpon the throne vnto the basest of the remnant of the people that stands digging vpon the dunghill This Chariot of charitie was drawne with the other two Theologicall vertues Fides Spes Faith and Hope And they were drawing this Chariot to heauen whither when they haue brought it Faith and Hope are vnyoked and vanish away leauing charitie there to remaine perpetually in louing God in louing the Saints in louing one another world without end for euer and euer Et bonum est esse hic And it is good being here where among the many mansions in our heauenly Fathers house there are three tabernacles made and prouided One for Zerubbabel an other for Iehoshua an other for the remnant of the people if they shall zealously and religiously promote the building of Gods house as becommeth such as are ordained vnto saluation and euerlasting life where are such vnspeakable ioyes treasured vp for them which faithfully labour in this worke as no eye hath seene no care hath heard neither can the heart of man conceiue them I can not leaue your meditations in a better place And therefore no further to trouble your patience here giue me leaue to set a period to my speech Oft haue I spoken in this place and the like elsewhere vpon the like occasion And indeede neuer thought I thus to haue spoken more But behold the power and goodnesse of Almightie God who killeth and maketh aliue bringeth downe to the graue and raiseth vp againe his name be blessed and praised for euer The first visitation Sermon that euer I preached was in this place almost thirtie yeeres since And now God in his prouidence hath brought me hither once more to preach my last in this kinde Long haue I beene vale tudinarius weake and sickely as you know And now would I willingly take my leaue and giue my vltimum vale to this place and the like in the like assemblies and vpon the like occasion leauing it to others euery way more fit and able and the Lord God still increase the number of them And in this my vale-diction let me say to euery one of you my brethren as Saint Paul doth to Timothy Take heede vnto thy selfe 1. Tim. 4.16 and vnto learning Take heede to thy life and to thy doctrine continue therein for in doing this thou shalt both saue thy selfe and them that heare thee And you beloued that are of the remnant of the people Remember how it is written in the 13. of the Hebrewes Heb 13. â—7 Obey them that haue the ouersight of you and submit your selues for they watch for your soules as they that must giue account 1. Thess 5.12 13. that they may doe it with ioy and not with griefe And againe in the 1. Thess 5. Now we beseech you brethren acknowledge them which labour among you and are ouer you in the Lord and admonish you that you haue them in a singular loue not in an ordinarie affection but in a singular loue for their workes sake If for nothing else yet for their workes sake and their worke is no lesse then mediately the saluation of your soules And so let me conclude with the Apostle S. Paul Finally brethren fare yee well 1. Cor. 13.11 be perfect be of good comfort be of one minde liue in peace and the God of loue and peace shall be with you This God of peace and that peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding keepe your hearts and mindes in the knowledge and loue of God and of his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord and the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost be among you and remaine with you in body and soule both now and euermore Amen Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name be ascribed all praise and glory FINIS
A SERMON PREACHED AT CERN IN THE COVNTY of Dorset the 18. day of September 1623. at the Visitation of the Right Reuerend Father in God the Lord Bishop of BRISTOLL BY ROBERT LOVGHER Pastor of Mapowder HAGGAI 1.4 Is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled houses and this house lye wast LONDON Printed by IOHN LEGATT for FRANCIS CONSTABLE and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the White Lyon in S. Pauls Church-yard 1624. To the Right Reuerend Father in God ROBERT by Diuine prouidence Bishop of BRISTOLL R. L. wisheth all health and happinesse both Temporall and Eternall RIght Reuerend Your Lordships request at Cern was to me as a command vpon my Canonicall obedience so that I durst not neglect the Apostles precept Obedite praepositis as hauing likewise learned that obedience is better then sacrifice Hauing hereupon summed vp my weake Meditations I haue now made bould to send you a Copie of my poore Labours in your Visitation according to your Lordships pleasure and my promise Whatsoeuer it was if any thing in the speaking I feare me it will be no thing or no thing like in the reading as wanting that life which is the first second and third thing as in a Rhetoricall so in a Theologicall Orator Onely this is my comfort that your Lordship will be pleased to giue it both life and grace by your reading it together with a kind of Episcopall confirmation by imposing your sacred hands vpon it Whatsoeuer it is it is wholy yours preached by your appointment and in your Lordships Visitation transcribed according to your pleasure and now with all humilitie it comes to kisse your Lordships hands in hope of a gracious and fauourable acceptance Princes and people did bring to King Dauid Brasse Siluer Gold and pretious Stones in great aboundance towards the building of a Temple a materiall House for the Lord of Hostes. Siluer I haue none and Gold I haue none nor any precious and curious stuffe fit for this purpose but such as I haue giue I vnto you towards the building of Gods spirituall House And where there is a willing and a readie minde God accepteth according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not Tolle Lege And the Lord giue a blessing to it and vouchsafe to blesse your Lordship for deigning thus to blesse and to grace it And so I cease to trouble you but neuer to honour you resting Euer deuoted to your Lordships seruice ROBERT LOVGHER Haggai cap. 1. vers 14. And the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel a Prince of Iudah and the spirit of Iehoshua the sonne of Iehozadak the hie Priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they came and did the worke in the house of the Lord of Hosts their God THE Lord commanded Moses to make two siluer trumpets which were to bee sounded by the Priests the sonnes of Aaron Numb 10.1 c. At the first sound of the trumpet the Rulers were to stirre the sounding againe of the trumpets was for the people so we reade in the tenth chapter of the booke of Numbers Men brethren and fathers right reuerend and the rest beloued in our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ It hath pleased God at this time to send me one of the meanest and weakest of the sonnes of Aaron to sound out the siluer trumpet of his sacred word to incite and stirre vp both Rulers and people to a conscionable performance of their duties in their seuerall places And the rather to animate and incourage me in this his Message he commandeth me as he doth all his Embassadours in the like case To cry aloud to lift vp my voice like a trumpet to shew his people their transgression and the house of Iacob their sinnes Esay 58 1. as it is in the 58. chapt of the prophesie of Esay You know how famous Ierusalem sometimes was the Citie of God and the Temple builded there by King Salomon â— Chro. 22.5 accounted the mirrour and glory of the world Yet for the sinnes of Princes Priests and people both Citie and Temple were brought vnto destruction by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians Who after two yeeres siege rased the Citie and burnt the Temple downe to the ground carrying away both Princes and people as slaues to Babylon when after 70. yeeres captiuitie Cyrus king of Perfia subduing the Chaldeans gaue them leaue to returne to Indea their owne countrey with commandement and authoritie to reedifie and build vp the Temple destroyed by the Babylonians restoring also the vessels of the house of God which were of siluer and gold carried away by Nebuchadonosor all which to a great number were deliuered to Zerubbabel Prince of the people 50400. Eâ—ra 1.11 which returned with him to Ierusalem This people two yeeres after their returne began to lay the foundation of the Temple where it stood before And this was done with great reioycing with trumpets and cymbals with singing of the Leuites and shouting of the people But they had no sooner begun but presently there arose vp aduersaries who openly and secretly hindered this worke vntill the second yeere of king Darius who mou'd by the Spirit of God did further this building as king Cyrus did before him But now behold Prince Priest and people were so carried away some with matter of pleasure this way and some with matter of profit that way that they little regarded the building of Gods sanctuary running euery man to his owne house and letting Gods house lie waste as it is in the ninth verse Whereupon the Lord raised vp this his Prophet Haggai to rouse them out of their sleepe of security and carelesnesse and to spurre them forward in the worke of the Lords house which here you see did take effect And the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Zerubbabel the Prince c. In which words are foure things remarkeable and of vs at this time to be considered First what is meant by the word spirit Secondly who stirred vp the spirit And that was God The Lord stirred vp the spirit Thirdly the persons whose spirit the Lord stirred vp And they were Prince Priest and People The Lord stirred vp the spirit of Zerubbabel the Prince and the spirit of Iehoshua the hie Priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people Fourthly the end wherefore the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Prince Priest and people and that was to the repairing and building of his Temple they came and did the worke in the house of the Lord of hosts their God Of these points while I shall speake briefely and plainly as it shall please the Spirit of God to afford me his blessed assistance lend me I beseech you a little your wonted patience and attention And the Lord stirred vp the spirit This word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spirit hath in the Scriptures diuers significations Sometimes it is