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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › CHAP. VIII. › Verse 11: VER. 11.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Another thing observable is, It was set before the Veil by §3the Ark of the Testimony, before the Mercy-seat. It was to stand in the holy of holiest, but just before the Veil, right against the Mercy-seat; and by this you must be helped to understand that Scripture in Heb. 9. 4. 1which (as some understand it) seems to have some variety from this,2 it is said that the holiest of all had the golden Censer, by which they understand the golden Altar, in which the Censer was; but we shall find that the golden Altar did not stand in the holy of holiest, for we read in Exod. 30. 6. And thou shalt put it before the Veil that is by the Ark of the Testimony, before the Mercy-seat; that is, over the Testimony. And therefore Interpreters reconcile it thus: it is not said here that the golden Censer or Altar (if we so take it) was in it, but it had it, that is, it was for the use of the holy of holiest,3 and it stood just before the holy of holiest, and just against the Mercy-seat, so that the high Priest when he was to enter into the holy of holiest he was to take a Censer and Incense from this Altar, and so go into the holiest of all.
Another thing observable is, It was set before the Vail by §3the Ark of the Testimony, before the Mercy-seat. It was to stand in the holy of holiest, but just before the Vail, right against the Mercy-seat; and by this you must be helped to understand that Scripture in Heb. 9. 4. 1which (as some understand it) seems to have some variety from this,2 it is said that the holiest of all had the golden Censer, by which they understand the golden Altar, in which the Censer was; but we shall find that the golden Altar did not stand in the holy of holiest, for we reade in