Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 1:14

14 ¶ Sanctifie ye a fast , call a solemn assembly , gather the elders , and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God , and cry unto the LORD .

You Priests, Ministers of my God, set apart a day, or more dayes, appoint a time, forbid all servile work, and sensual pleasures, do what you may to prepare for such a necessary work.

Wherein to afflict your selves, confess your sins, repent of them, and sue out your pardon, return to God, that he may remove your present calamities, and prevent the future.

Proclaim and publish it, that every one may know they are restrain'd from common, daily work, and that they are commanded to come together, most solemnly to seek the Lord.

Both for Age and for Authority, Magistrates and Rulers who possibly had been by their sins, more then others, cause of these grievous calamities, and should now be examples to others in repenting.

Make this Fast as publick universal as you can, command all the people of the land, all that dwell with you, perhaps the Prophet intends Proselytes of the Law, and those of Commerce as well as the Iewes.

Courts of the Temple. for Priests only might go into the Temple it self, the Court of Israel, where the people were wont to pray.

Remember the Covenant by which you are his people, and he is your God▪ that you may plead his promises as well as wait for his mercies

With tears of Repentance, with Prayer of Faith, cry more with the broken heart then loud voice.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 letter]hap. 2.15.; [illegible: 1 letter]ev. 23.36.; [illegible: 1 word], day of [illegible: 1 word].