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(2) Consider, consid. 2 that thy hearing, if thou dost not practise what thou hearest, will aggravate thy damnation an other way; in Joh. 15.22. says Christ, If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin. ¹So in Luke 12.47. That servant that knew his Lords will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

(2) Consider, consid. 2 that thy hearing, if thou dost not practise what thou hearest, will aggravate thy damnation an other way; in Joh. 15.22. sayes Christ, If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin. ¹So in Luke 12.47. That servant that knew his Lords will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

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It is an observation that one hath upon the Prophecy of Isaiah from the 13. to the 24. Chapter of that Prophecy, you shall read there of many dismal denuntiations of judgment, the burden of Babylon, the burden of Tyre, the burden of Damascus, and of Moab, and of Egypt, and the burden of the desert of the Sea; many nations and people did the Lord command the Prophet to pronounce a burdensome Prophecy against; but amongst them all there is the burden of the valley of vision in the 22. Chapter, and it is observed that this is the most burdensome of them all, and the reason is, because that was a place of vision and knowledge, where the Word of God was dispensed, and because of their sinfulness and unprofitableness, their burden is heavier then all the rest, because it is the burden of the valley of vision.