John Trapp on Hosea 6:2

Verſe 2.Jer. 18.12. After two dayes will he revive us,] Whereas ſome of thoſe that were called upon to Come and return unto the Lord, might ſay with thoſe in Ieremy, Nay, for there is no hope, Pſal. 88.5. God hath mortally wounded us, ſo that we are already in the jawes of death, free among the dead, as the Pſalmiſt hath it, free of that company: The better ſort of them, fulleſt of faith, anſwer: Dead though we be, yet God will revive us: and long though it ſeem, yet after two dayes, or ſuch a matter, in a very ſhort ſpace, ſo ſoon as ever it ſhall be convenient, and for our greateſt good, He that ſhall come to our comfort,Heb. 10.37. will come, and will not tarry. And for the certainty of it, as ſure as the third day followeth the ſecond, ſo ſure ſhall deliverance come in due ſeaſon: fear ye not.

In the third day he will raiſe us up,] He will, he will, never doubt of it. O the Rhetorick of God! O the certainty of the promiſes! See the like expreſſions, Eſay 26.20. & 10.25. Hagg. 2.7. Habak. 2.3. Heb. 10.37. and have patience. Gods help ſeems long, becauſer we are ſhort: Nec quia dura, ſed quia molles patimur. We ſhould draw forth hope as a line: Senecal Joh. 13.7. and think we hear Chriſt ſaying as he did to Peter, What I do thou knoweſt not now, but thou ſhalt know hereafter.