John Trapp on Joel 1:13

Verſe 13. Gird your ſelves and lament ye Prieſts] Be you Preſt, and firſt in the practiſe of humiliation: Be you an example of the believers in word in converſation &c. 1 Tim. 4.12. a patern of piety. Si vis ne flere &c. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Horat. Judg. 9.18. If others ſhall lament, you muſt begin to them: and ſay as Abimelech did to his ſouldiers, What ye have ſeen me do, make haſt and do likewiſe: and as St. Paul doth to his Philippians, Thoſe things which ye have both learned and received, and heard and ſeen in me, do; Philip. 4.9. and the God of peace ſhall be with you.

for the meat-offering and the drink-offering, &c.] your maintenance is ſubſtracted, and (that which ſhould more affect you) the ſacred ſervice of God is intermitted, and ſo the glory is departed, the dayly ſacrifice is neglected, which the Jewes counted and called The abomination of deſolation. Phineas his wife was not without natural affection 1 Sam. 4.21. but her ſpiritual affections prevailed. Therefore in the declaration of her ſorrow, that of her father in law and husband is but once named: but twice it came in, The glory is departed, The glory is departed. All comforts are but Ichabods to a good heart without the ordinances: without the ſincere milk of the word Gods new-born babes cannot be quitted.Tom. 4. Oper. Lat. p. 424. I could not live in Paradiſe without the Word (ſaid Luther) as with the Word, I could eaſily live in hell it ſelf.