And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth [day] of the month, saying,
Ver. 20. And again, the word of the Lord] Again the same day. Twice a day preaching is no new practice then. This prophet did it; so did our Saviour, Matthew 13:1. So did Chrysostom, as appeareth by his note on 1 Thessalonians 5:17. So did Luther; which, because one Nicholas White commended in him, he was accused of heresy, in the reign of Henry VIII It is not so long since it was held here practical Puritanism. The late arch-prelate being sued unto by a nobleman to prefer a chaplain of his (whom he commended for an able divine, and a twice-a-day preacher), turned away in a great heat, saying, The more fool he.