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Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy
Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy: delivered in several sermons on solemn occasions: / by Mr. Samuel Willard Pastor of the Church of Christ at Groton. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green, 1673
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Question is propounded ver. 11.
The Answer short, full, and sharp, ver. 12.
The meaning of the words take up as they come to be handled in particular.
The burden] i. e. A Prophecy containing Threatenings of Wrath, and Predictions of Misery: an ordinary phrase it is among the Prophets, to express any Vision of sad consequence. See Chap. 13. 1 and this Chapter, ver. 1, 13. and therefore the Prophet interprets the sense of the word, ver. 2. An hard Vision. See also 2 Kings 9. 25. Jer. 23. 33. and elsewhere. Hence▪
The burden] i. e. A Prophesie containing Threatnings of Wrath, and Predictions of Misery: an ordinary phrase it is among the Prophets, to express any Vision of sad consequence. See Chap. 13. 1 and this Chapter, ver. 1, 13. and therefore the Prophet interprets the sense of the word, ver. 2. An hard Vision. See also