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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. › Chapter 9 › Verse 5: VER. 5.
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VER. 5.
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
NOW they shall remember their solemn days, their feasts, and see themselves cut off from any further enjoying of them,1 it must needs be a great saddening unto their spirits to think what days once they had, Oh what solemn times and feasts that they did keep to God; for any to sit down in times of affliction and say, I remember what days of joy in the service of God I once had, but now they are gone, Oh! the days that I was wont to have, how sweet were they? but all is now past and we must sit down in sorrow and affliction. There was a time (saith God by the Prophet) that you would not suffer any to go up to the feast, but now you shall be far enough from Jerusalem or any other place of Worship, and the very remembrance of those solemn days shall be grievous to you, Oh! what will you do in those solemn days? Those solemn days were days of joy, in Numb. 10. 10. Thus I think some carry it, they make those feasts to be the feasts that they should have ⟨p. 173⟩gone up to Jerusalem in;2 but I take not this to be the scope of the holy Ghost here, but rather thus; by the solemn Days and Feasts of the Lord is here meant, the solemn day of Gods wrath and vengeance upon them; now for the making out of that I shall show first, that in Scripture the day of Gods wrath is called the solemn day, and the day of Gods feast is the day of his wrath, a day wherein God feasts.