John Trapp on Haggai 1:7

Verſe 7. Conſider your wayes] See ver. 5. Do it early, and earneſtly. Excutite vos, iterumque excutite, as Tremellius rendreth that in Zeph. 2.1. Search you, ſearch you, O Nation not worthy to be beloved. So Lam. 3.40. Let us ſearch and try our wayes. Not ſearch only but try, and as it were ſift them to the brann So 2 Cor. 13.5. Examine your ſelves whether ye be in the faith: prove your own ſelves, as it were with redoubled diligence, in a moſt needfull but much neglected duty, of dealing with your own hearts. But if ye will not, ſee that flaming place Ezech. 16.43. If men will not judge themſelves, God will: as though ſchollers will not ſcan their verſes, their maſters will. Men are as loth to review their actions, and read the blurr'd writings of their own hearts, as School-boyes are to parſe their leſſons and falſe Latines they have made. But as he who will not caſt up his bookes, his bookes will caſt up him at length: ſo thoſe that will not conſider their wayes, and take themſelves to task, ſhall find that ſparing a little paines at firſt will double it in the end: and that the beſt that can come of this forlorne negligence, is the bitter pangs of repentance. Oh therefore that, with Solomons wiſe man, we had our eyes in our heads, and not in the corners of the earth!Eccleſ. 2.14. 1 King. 6.4. And that our eyes were, like the windowes in Solomons Temple, broad inward, that we might ſee our ſins to confeſſion, ſo ſhould we never ſee them to our confuſion. The Iſraelites confeſſed their murmuring and ſtubbornneſſe, when God ſent evill Angels amongſt them, that is, ſome meſſengers of his wrath and diſpleaſure. The Prophet Haggai here would have their poſterity conſider and better conſider, ſith the hand of God was ſo heavy upon them, and that he came againſt them as in were with a drawn ſword, how they might diſarme his juſt indignation by a ſpeedy reformation. To which purpoſe he addeth