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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 God When a man is crying for an Alms but for a piece of bread to be rejected is something but when a man is crying for his soul then to be rejected and by God himself this is more grievous Secondly The bread for their soul that is The bread they have to maintain their lives withal if they would offer that to the Lord it should not come into the house of the Lord to be accepted for by bread for their souls may be meant the bread that they have to maintain their lives for so we find the Scripture cals the soul the life of a man in Mat. 6. 24. Is not the life more worth than meat the words in the original are Is not the Soul of man It is here the bread for the soul that is the very bread that they have to maintain their lives their necessary bread that they have to live on although they should be willing to offer that to the Lord it shall not come unto him Now this is as if the Prophet should say to them Now you cannot be brought to them to offer your superfluity to God but your condition shall be such as if you would offer the necessary bread you have to preserve your lives if you would offer that to God God will not accept of it As if a man were so poor that he were ready to starve and yet for all that such a man would say Wel though I starve yet I wil offer this I have to live on and I would offer this to God rather than have it my self now you would think this should be an argument of a great deal of devotion But the case shall be now that though you would seek God with such earnestness yet the heart of God shall be so hardened against you as they will not be accepted Those who in time of prosperity are loth to deny their ease and loth to lay out any thing of their superfluity for God but time may come that though they should be willing to bite off their very nails and pluck out their eyes and tear their very flesh in indignation for their sin in respect unto God any way yet this God shall not vouchsafe to have regard unto Therefore this learn by it to seek God while he may be found and not to stand upon your own terms with God in the day of your prosperity and to say I cannot spare this and that for him but if we deny God now what is his due though we would give to him hereafter that that our lives lay upon yet it shall not be accepted 3. Bread for their souls that is they shall have no more bread than will serve for their very life from hand to mouth they shall have nothing to bring to the House of the Lord they shall be so put to it when they are in captivity they shall be kept so strictly as to have nothing but bread and water nothing but from hand to mouth they shall be far enough from having any thing to offer to the Lord to be accepted of him if they should think of bringing any thing to the House of the Lord alas what have they nothing but a little bread for their soul From whence the Note is this To have no estate to offer to God in his service in the waies of his publick worship is a great affliction It follows 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 daies their feasts and see themselves cut off from any further enjoying of them it must needs be a great sadning unto their spirits to think what daies 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 daies of joy in the service of God I once had but now they are gone Oh! the daies 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 daies shall be grievous to you Oh! what will you do in those solemn daies Those solemn daies were daies of joy in Numb 10. 10. Thus I think some carry it they make those feasts to be the feasts that they should have gone up to Jerusalem in but I take not this to be the scope of the holy Ghost here but rather thus by the solemn Daies 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 shew first that in Scripture the day of Gods wrath is call'd the solemn day and the day of Gods feast is the day of his wrath a day wherein God feasts First The solemn day it is the day of Gods wrath in Lament 2. 22. Thou hast call'd as in a solemn day my terrors round about so that in the day of the Lords Anger none escaped So that the solemn day is the day of the Lords anger there And Secondly The day of Gods Feast that time when God doth execute his wrath upon wicked men is the day of a feast to God In Revel 19. 17 18. verses besides other texts An Angel cried with a loud voice to all the fowls that fly in the Heavens Come and gather your selves together to the supper of the great God that ye may eat the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captains and the flesh of Mighty men and the flesh of Horses and of them that sit on them and the flesh of all men both free and bond both smal and great it is the day of the Lords feast Now 't is a solemn day a day of the execution of Gods wrath because now God executes wrath publickly and brings much wrath together Thou hast call'd as in a solemn day my terrors round about You know that in the day of a petty Sessions there may be some justice done but more privatly But in a day of solemn Assizes when there is a full Goal delivery then judgment is done publickly so God executes justice sometimes upon men particularly but God hath his solemn day to execute his judgments publickly before all and then the Lord feasts The day of execution of Gods wrath upon wicked men is a day of feast upon this ground First Because the day of their feasts were daies of slaying sacrifices so they should now be slain and God would account even their bodies that were slain to be as sacrifices for this great feast of his In Isa 34. 6. The Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the Land of Idumea And in

Name of God and saith Oh! but God is of another opinion When therefore we find our selves jocund and merry we should consider but is God of the same mind that we are of Many mens rejoycing is so disagreeing to Gods mind as they dare not so much as consult with God or their own consciences to know what God and conscience will tell them concerning their rejoycing the more men can prevail with their own consciences to be silent the more joy they have yea some there are that have so much guiltinese upon their spirits as they can have no joy but at such time when they can take advantage of their own consciences they are fain to take a time when their consciences are asleep or else they can have no joy Now cursed be that joy that cannot stand with a free working of a true enlightened conscience Thirdly Men may be in an outward prosperous condition and yet have little cause to joy in it all outward prosperity may stand with the heavy wrath of God hanging over the sinners head he may be upon the very brink of destruction and yet prosper outwardly outward prosperity may come in wrath the curse of God the poyson of Gods curse may be in the Wine as well as in the Water wicked men that are poor have their Water poysoned and wicked men that are rich and prosperous have their Wine poisoned and what difference is there between drinking poisoned Water and poisoned Wine the swelling of carnal hearts in their prosperity it is a sign that it is poisoned to them Outward prosperity as it may come in wrath so it may stand wi●h wrath and make way to wrath by it the vessels of wrath may be fitted to destruction God many times hath a further reach in suffering wicked men to prosper than they are aware of as Ester when she invited Hamon to a banquet he drew such a connexion that he was honored above all the Nobles in the land and he goes away rejoycing and tells his friends of the great honor that was put upon him but Ester had another design in it than Hamon thought of it was not to honor him but to destroy him So many people whose estates God raises they make other manner of connexions from Gods dealing with them than ever God intended they think God hath blessed them when the truth is God is working their ruin and destruction As a painted face is no argument of a good complexion so a prosperous estate is no argument of a good condition Rejoyce not for Joy Carnal hearts in their joy are set upon jolity their spirits insult and they think of nothing that should moderate their joy so the words import Rejoyce not for joy if you will rejoyce let there not be meer joy but some kind of mixture in it there should be a mixture of reverence and fear in our rejoycing we should rejoyce with trembling here in this world Whatsoever blessings we have from God yet I say we should rejoyce with trembling here remembring first our unworthiness of any good we have there should be that put into our joy Secondly Remember the afflictions of our brethren Thirdly Remember the uncertain and the vanishing nature of all these things we rejoyce in Put these three things alwaies into the Cup of our Joy else it will be too sweet and will clog the stomach Mix the Cup of your Joy with these three Meditations First Your Unworthiness of that Mercy Secondly The Meditation of the Affliction of our Brethren of yours that have done God more service than ever you have done or are like to do Thirdly That Meditation of the Uncertainty of al these things that your hearts are so taken withal These three Ingredients will make a good Mixture that we shall not surfeit with our condition Do not rejoyce that is Let there not be pure Joy But the strength of this expression lies in the other Rejoyce not with joy as other people First Be not taken with the bravery and jolity of other people to think them happy Oh! It 's a fine life to live as they do The jolity of other people that are in a different way from us is many times a great temptation to draw the heart to them because we see they live merrily and bravely But that doth not reach yet to the main scope of the Prophet Rejoyce not with joy as other people Secondly Therefore do not rejoyce as they do in their Idolatrous Festivities Dancing and many waies of jolity that they had in their Idolatrous feasts we must not imitate Idolaters in their Triumphs This was the sin of many in the primitive times because they were come new out of Heathenism they would turn the Heathenish feasts into Christian feasts and Heathenish customs whereby they were wont before to honor their Idol gods into the custom of Christians to honor Christ in the same way and they thought this was very good that whereas before they did honor Idol gods now they thought if they did but turn this to honor Jesus Christ they thought this would be acceptable No this was a great sin and brought a great deal of evil into the Christian world and we do to this day suffer in that way if do tender our respects to God though it be in the same way that Idolaters do to their Idols we think we do well and indeed here 's the original of keeping this time both of your Christmass and New-years-day it is but the changing of them from the keeping of the Heathenish time to the honor of Christ and of the Saints I remember this time two years through meer providence that Scripture came in our way I will take away their solemn feasts And there I shewed how these came instead of the Heathenish times Now saith the holy Ghost here Rejoyce not as other people do do not you imitate them they have their Idolatrous Feasts but do not you as they do We must not take liberty to imitate Heathens and Idolaters in their worship though we think to tender our respects to God thereby Rejoyce not as other people Not as A people for the word other is not in the Hebrew Do not you rejoyce as if you were to continue a people still for you are to be carried captive and not to continue as a people do not you therefore rejoyce as if you were in a setled condition you have brought your selves into such a condition as you are not to look upon your selves as a people Do not Rejoyce no not as a people It 's a miserable spectacle to see those who are ready to be destroyed to be jolly and merry as if there were no such matter It is said of the Dolphin that it sports most when a storm comes So when the storm of Gods wrath is arising upon a people then they are most jolly and merry Again Rejoyce not in that manner as others