A30574:601
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
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.
Their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners.
The Hebrew may be taken substantively, or adjectively, as thus: For the bread of mourning, or the bread of mourners, either of both two may be taken according to the original, Now by the bread of mourners is here meant unclean bread.
for so it is interpreted afterwards, It shall be unclean.
But why the bread of mourners unclean? This Text hath reference to what you read in Numb. 19. 11. and 14.1 verses, you may read there, that the dead body of a man it did defile whatsoever touched it, yea, whatsoever came near it, and all those that were at Funerals that did mourn for the dead, that came to the place where the dead body was, to mourn with the friends for the dead, they became unclean by the dead body:2 And that's observable, that the dead body of a beast did not make men so unclean (by legal uncleanness) as the dead body of a man did. The dead body of a beast made one unclean but only till the evening, in