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A30574	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.]	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6070B; ESTC R36308	388,238	512

of his children that were so eminent in office and were destroyed so with such a visible hand of God fire from Heaven when Moses was angry that the Priests had not eat of the sin offering saith Aaron If I had eaten of the sin offering to day should it have been accepted It would have been but as the bread of mourners I that have bin struck this day and am in such a dreadful condition Would God have regarded the sin offering God required joy in his services in Deut. 1● 7. 18. verses and hence that profession was required in Deut. 26. 13 14. verses Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house and also have given them unto the Levite and unto the Stranger to the Fatherless and to the Widdow according to all the Commandements which thou hast commanded me I have not transgressed thy Commandements neither have I forgotten them And then in the 14. vers I have not eaten thereof in my mourning c. They were to profess this to God That they had not eaten thereof in their mourning this was to shew that sacrifices offered with a sinking heart in sorrow is not pleasing to God God loves a cheerful giver We must not pine away in our iniquities sullenness and dumpishness even in sorrow for sin it sowres our spirits and services and makes them unacceptable to God I say a sullen dumpishness of spirit though it be in sorrow for sin it sowres our spirits and makes our services unacceptable to God There is a groaning and a sighing one to another or rather against one another that is condemn'd in Scripture in Jam. 5. 9. the words in your books are thus Grudge nor one against another but in the Original Sigh not or groan not one against another you shall have many that in company with others have a pensive dumpish spirit sighing and groaning and making their society to be burdensom to others Saith the holy Ghost do not sigh and groan one unto another there is a sullen dumpish sighing of spirit and dejection of soul that is as unpleasing to God as it is unto men it polutes the heart and pollutes duty But you will say Is all mourning forbidden that here the holy Ghost should say Their offerings should be as the bread of Mourners Christ saith blessed are the Mourners and the Sacrifice of God is a contrite heart It 's true an evangelical sorrow is accepted but that hath sweetness in it it is not bitter that 's not a dejected spirit it 's not a mourning that causes dejection or sullenness or straightness of spirit but that mourning doth enlarge the heart and makes it active for God hence in Ezra 9. 5. although we reade before that Ezra was astonished at the sin of the people yet saith he at the 5. verse I arose from my heaviness at the evening sacrifice when the time came that I should sacrifice unto God my heaviness did not hinder me in holy duties But how many are there that sink down in their heaviness and when God calls upon them for any duty they cannot arise they are so over-burdened with heavy spirits There they sink down in a sullen way and shall God accept of such a service as this is You may please your selves in it and think it is humiliation but there may be much pride in dejection there is none so proud a spirit as the Devil is and yet no spirit so dejected as the Devil is Lead we know it melts soonest but it consumes in the melting and many times there may be such a spirit that may be ready to sorrow upon any occasion and to melt but it 's such a melting as consumes the strength of it that it is unfit for any service that God calls for now such services as you in such a mourning way tender up to God are not accepted of him Remember this text Their offering shall be as the bread of mourning Gualter hath a Note from this God would not accept of the offering of Mourners they were unclean yet saith he there are many that seek to get their greatest gain from Funeral mournings and fall of enveighing against them that get gain that way as their Priests and Officers that use to tend upon Funerals for gain he calls them Vultur● and Crows that do flock to dead bodies and Sepulchers Dogs those are his words that seek to get advantage by Funerals And we know heretofore what abundance of advantage there was gotten by Funerals scarce could you bury a child under three or four pounds such kind of fees there were and made them even rejoyce when others did mourn and getting a great part of of their livelihood from the bread of Mourners And Theophylact hath another Note from this place The bread of Mourners That is those things offered to God gotten by oppression as thus suppose a man or woman gets an estate and gets it in an oppressing way it may be they are at home and merry but it may be the poor children or widdow is mourning for those morsels that thou art rejoycing in but it is the first Note that is the most according to the mind of the holy Ghost the mourning that hath respect to the funerals and so especially at the dejection of spirit in holy duties It follows The bread for their soul shall not come into the House of the Lord. The bread for their soul That is When they are seeking God even for their very lives By Bread is to be understood their oblations more generally not only Bread but their Oblations As Malac. 1. 7. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine Altar it 's taken generally for all kind of offerings upon Gods Altar So The bread for their souls that is those offerings that they did offer for their very lives Now from thence the Note is this That it 's a sad thing when a creature would seek to God for his very life yet then God rejects him and his offering too Before these people they did reject the voice of the Lord at the Temple and they kept others from going to the House of the Lord they thought sacrifices elsewhere would serve the turn as well but now they shall be far enough from bringing any sactifices to the House of the Lord though they should desire to do it for their very souls Thus many who in the time of their prosperity do neglect the Worship of God and slight it and think there is no great matter in it but afterwards when they see their very lives their souls lie at the mercy of God then they would fain seek God for their lives they see they are undone if God be not merciful to them yet then God rejects them their offerings then for their souls shall not come into the House of the Lord that is will not be accepted

earth-quakes all these should be but the beginning of sorrows Secondly God expects from men that though they be not sensible of his threats yet when he begins with them in way of execution of his wrath they should begin a little Oh! it were well with us if we did prevent Gods heavy wrath by our repentance Numbers 16. 46. Moses said unto Aaron Take a Censer and put fire therein from off the Altar and put on Incense and go quickly to the Congregation and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the Lord the plague is begun Oh! how should we all make hast we cannot say only the plague is begun the plague of Civil War which is the greatest of all kind of plagues but it hath gone on a great way But to proceed VER 11. Because Ephraim hath made many Altars to sin Altars shall be unto him to sin IT was the Charge of God in Scripture That there should be but one Altar for Sacrifice and there was another Altar that afterwards was made for Incense and no further in Deut. 12. 3. and 5. ver There we have the Charge of God that there should be none other made You shall overthrow their Altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire and you shall hew down the graven Images of their gods and destroy the names of them out of that place c. And then Take heed to thy self that thou offer not thy burnt offering in every place that thou seest but in the place which the Lord shall chuse c. And in Deut. 27. 5. Thou shalt build an Altar to the Lord thy God an Altar of stones thou shalt not lift up an Iron tool upon them And according to which Joshua did in Joshua 8. 30. and hence in Joshua 22. 11. Now for the Altar of God I shall first shew you a little the meaning of them and then the reason why God would have but this one Altar in Exod. 20. 24. there is an injunction of God for the Altar of Sacrifice An Altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offering c. Here observe that That when God would have an Altar made for sacrifice it must be but an Altar of earth but if it should be of stone Take heed that thou liftest not up a tool upon it Why one would think that to carve and paint the stones and do any thing to make it brave would do better than to have the stones rough No saith God whatsoever you may think that to make my Altar brave by carving of it and painting it If you do but lift up a tool upon it you polute my Altar all mans devices in the worship of God though they be never so pompous they do but polute Gods Worship And they must not go up upon steps quite contrary to our high Altars that their nakedness be not discovered therein Noting that when we come into the presence of God we should take heed of our spiritual nakedness and the pride and vanity of our spirits in prayer God would have them make an Altar so as they might not go up upon steps lest their nakedness should be discovered But now in Exod. 27. 1 2. there you shall find an Altar of Shittim wood overlaid with Brass you will say Why was the first with earth and the other with brass The reason was because that the one was to be made when they were in an unsetled condition and the other to be made afterwards when they were in a more stated condition than formerly and that it might endure a long time But mark it must be according to Gods direction except God doth reveal that it should be of Shittim wood and overlaid with brass they were not to do it And then the second Altar was the Altar of burnt Incense and that you have in Exod. 30. 1 2 3. verses and that was to be overlaid with pure Gold that of brass it was because there was sin offerings to be offered upon it but now the Altar of Incense it was the Altar that was just before the Vail against the Mercy-seat where there was only Incense offered which was to signifie the Intercession of Jesus Christ presenting his Merits and the Prayers of all his people to the Father the prayers of the Saints are compar'd to Incense and there 's many things observable about the Altar of God it is said that there should be four horns and in Revel chap. 9. ver 13. I heard a voice from the four horns of the Golden Altar which is before God Now Saint John speaks of after-times that should be he heard a voice from the four horns of the Altar that is from all the prayers of the Saints that were in the four corners of the earth there came a voice from them all and did sound and did great things in the world Certainly my Brethren the prayers of Gods Saints in all the corners of the world is that that makes the world ring It was a Speech of a learned man If there be but one sigh come from a gracious heart it fills the ears of God so that God hears nothing else nay that 's observable in Revel 8. 3. about this Altar of Incense And another Angel came and stood at the Altar having a golden Censer and there was given unto him much Incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden Altar which was before the Throne Thus we see that in our time we are to make use of this golden Altar that is before the Throne all our prayers are to be offered up upon that which was a Type of Jesus Christ and our prayers except they be mingled with the Incense which Christ did offer himself upon the golden Altar cannot be accepted and likewise that 's very observable about it that we reade in Exod. 30. 3. that there was a Crown of Gold round about it to typifie the Intercession of Christ and the prayers of the Saints you may see by this that Christs Intercession and the prayers of the Saints that came from faithful hearts are accounted the very glory of Jesus Christ Jesus Christ accounts it his dignity and glory to make Intercession for his People and to take the poor prayers of his People and present them to his Father he makes account that his Crown is set upon his head when you exercise your faith upon Jesus Christ that Christ might present your prayers with his Intercession to the Father then you set the Crown upon Jesus Christs head but when you think to be heard your selves and do not exercise your faith upon Christ you do as it were take off the Crown from the head of Jesus Christ And that 's very observable the difference between this Altar that was here enjoyn'd to be made by Moses and so was afterwards made and the Altar that we

of God And hence is the reason of that phrase that we have That Wine doth cheer the heart of God and man it cheer'd Gods heart to have offerings offered in a holy manner to him the greatest joy that God hath in the world is in the offerings of the Saints which should be the greatest encouragement to them men by their Wine and good Cheer may make themselves merry may make their friends merry but by their holy offerings they do cheer the heart of God they are as sweet-meats to God all the Wine and delightful things in the world they are as sweet I say to God as all the Wine and delightful things in the world are for men Thou hast a cup of Wine for thy friend to cheer him but hast thou a cup of Wine for God to cheer his heart that is a gracious holy offering unto God Surely that which is most sweet to the Soul of God should be most sweet to our souls You would wonder to hear a man say that he takes as much delight and he can recreate himself as much in reading in praying in hearing Sermons in holy conference as you can do in all your good cheer in playing and drinking of Wine in bowls you think that men are mad to say that they have as much pleasure in those things as playing at Cards and merriment and musick and good cheer you call upon them to play at Cards with you or be merry you say to them why should you be dumpish and never be merry they tell you again That they can be as merry and as cheerful in hearing the Word and praying and reading as you in all your playing and all that that you account delightful You say to them That they have no recreation They tell you That those things that are your burdens are their recreation you think it strange Why should you wonder Surely that that sweetens and joyes the heart of God that must needs be the rejoycing of the hearts of those that have the Spirit of God in them you have joy and mirth in such and such things these are sweet to you yea but do these things rejoyce God are they sweet to God But now this is the threatning here They shall not be sweet now to him nothing that is tendered to God from them shall be pleasing to him no saith God now I will have other waies to glorifie my self in upon you not by your offerings I 'le rather glorifie my self in your miseries and they shall be sweet and delightful to me If an Hypocri●e hath never so great enlargements in duties these would not be pleasing to God Gods palate is more delicate than to tast such sowre and sapless things than those are that comes from them Saith Tertullian The Spirit of God is a most delicate thing it hath a delicate palat and such swill that hath such mixtures of filth as your services have how can they be sweet to the delicate palat of the Spirit of God you are Hypocrites your lives are naught and filthy and unclean therefore none of your offerings can be sweet they are but swill unto that palat of mine It follows 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 reade in Numb 19. 11. and 14. 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 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 daies So you shall find in the former chap. of Numbers that they must be seven daies before they could be clensed 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 than in the dead body of a beast one made unclean but till evening and the other seven daies But the reason why there was this uncleanness from the dead body was First To note the uncleanness that there is in sin in dead works that those that did meddle with them they were polluted yea the uncleanness that there is in coming near unto sinners the coming but near to them all that was in the tent was polluted Secondly It was to shew how little pleasing to God Funeral mournings are for they were made unclean by them they were made unclean by their Funeral mournings for this bread of mourners is the bread that they eat in their Funerals The Gentils did mourn for their dead in an inordinate manner exceedingly and God would have a difference between his peoples mourning for the dead and their mourning because that he would keep up his peopl● faith and the hope of resurection from the dead whereas had they had liberty to mourn so excessively as the Heathens did by this means the very faith and hope of resurrection from the dead might in time even almost have been extinguished therefore God would have them take heed of that and therefore he did so ordain in the Ceremonial Law that al the mourners for the dead they should be unclean for so long a time As for any that doth give liberty in their natural affections and doth not hold the reins of them in their mourning for the dead I would apply to them that Scripture in Jer. 31. 15 16. Thus saith the Lord A voice was heard in Ramah Lamentation and bitter weeping RACHEL weeping for her CHILDREN refused to be comforted for her children because they were not But now Thus saith the Lord Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears thy work shall be rewarded and thy children shall come back again So it followed afterwards Do not weep as others let us not mourn as others that have no hope remember that the mourners for the dead in the Law they were to be unclean for seven daies Thirdly it was to note this That God would have cheerfulness in his service and therefore the bread of mourners is accounted polluted Levit. 10. 19. we reade of Aaron when there was such an occasion of mourning as ever was almost for a man for the death