John Trapp on Haggai 1:14

Verſe 14. And the Lord ſtirred up the ſpirit of Zerubbabel, &c. Here's the Appendix of the foregoing ſermon, whereof we have heard but the brief Notes. That one word, I am with you, ſeconded and ſet on by Gods holy Spirit, ſet them all awork. How forcible are right words? Job 6.25 One ſeaſonable truth falling on a prepared heart, hath oft a ſtrong and ſweet operation, ſc. when God is pleaſed to work with it, and make it effectuall: this, man cannot do, no more then the huſband-man can make an harveſt. The weapons of our warfare are mighty, 2 Cor. 10.4 through God, to the pulling down of ſtrong-holds. Luther having heard Staupicius ſay, that that is kindly repentance which begins from the love of God, found from that time forward the practiſe of repentance far ſweeter to him then before. Galeacius Caracciolus, an Italian Marqueſſe, was converted by an apt ſimilitude uſed by Peter Martyr, reading on the firſt Epiſtle to the Corinthians. Dr. Taylour, Martyr, bleſſed God, that ever he became fellow-priſoner to that Angel of God, (as he called him) John Bradford. Senarclaeus (in his Epiſtle to Bucer, prefixed before the hiſtory of the death of Iohn Diarius, ſlain by his own brother, as Abel was, for religions ſake) I remember, ſaith He, when he and I were together at Newburg, the day before his ſlaughter, he gave me a great deal of grave and gracious counſell, Ego verò illius oratione ſic incendebar, ut cum eum diſſerentem audirem, Spiritus Sancti verba me audire exiſtimarem, i. e. I was ſo ſtirred up with his diſcourſe, as if I had heard the Holy Ghoſt himſelf ſpeaking unto me; ſo fervent was he, and full of life; for he firſt felt what he ſpake, and then ſpake what he felt. So ſhould all do, that deſire to ſpeak to purpoſe; and then pray to God, as for a door of utterance, ſo for a door of entrance to be opened unto them; ſuch as St. Paul had to the heart of Lydiae, and as Biſhop Ridley had to the heart of good King Edw. 6. whereof before.

and they came and did work. The Governours alſo, by overſeeing others, and ruling the buſineſſe by their diſcretion. Where Gods glory and the common good is concerned, all ſorts muſt ſet to their helping hand.