Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. THE ENCOURAGEMENT TO BUILD THE LORD'S HOUSE. Haggai i. 7. 8. 12—14. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts : Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the House ; and I will take pleasure in it; and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.—Then Zerubbabel, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet; and the people did fear before the Lord. Then spake Haggai the Lord's messenger in the Lord's message to the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord. And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people : and they came and did work in the House of the Lord of Hosts, their God. In the former Sermons on the message borne by the prophet Haggai to the Jews, when they were neglecting their work of rebuilding the House of the Lord at. Jerusalem, we were led to consider how we also lie under the same duty of building the Lord's House, and in what ways it behoves us to build it,—how we also neglect this duty, while we spend our time in building what we regard as our own houses, and what excuses we bring forward for neglecting it,—and lastly, how we also are perpetually warned by God in manifold ways to abandon the thankless, unprofitable work of building houses for ourselves. The prophet's words enabled us to discern the utter misery of those who, forsaking their duty of building the Lord's House, waste their lives in building houses for themselves. We saw how they ever sow much, and bring in little,—how they eat, and have not enough,—how they drink, and are notfiled with drink,—how they clothe themselves, and are never warm,—and how the wages that they earn, they put into a bag with holes. We saw how these and the other calamities'spoken ...