Call; invite and oblige them by the course of his providence, and require this by the precepts requiring these things in such times and conditions.
To baldness; to make themselves bald, by plucking or shaving off the hair of their heads, as was usual in great sorrows, as Ezr_9:3Job_1:20Mic_1:16, although it was forbidden in case of the death of relations, for a special reason; of which see on Lev_19:27,28 21:5.