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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
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.
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 Numb. 11. 31. but the dead body of a man made a man unclean seven days. So you shall find in the former chap. of Numbers, that they must be seven days before they could be cleansed;3 and this was to note: That there were more remarkable expressions of the anger of God upon the sin of man in the dead body of a man,4 than in the dead body of a beast;5 one made unclean but till evening, and the other seven days. But the reason why there was this uncleanness from the dead body, was:
But why the bread of mourners unclean? This Text hath reference to what you reade in Numb. 19. 11. and 14.1 verses, you may reade there, that the dead body of a man it did defile whatsoever touch'd it, yea, whatsoever came neer 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