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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 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 2 Kings 9. 25. Jer. 23. 33. and elswhere. Hence▪
Doct. The denunciations of Gods wrath against a sinning people is a Burden, a thing heavy and grievous. In divers considerations.
1. They are a burden to Gods Messengers: i. e. grievous and hard to them, their spirits are oppressed, and many times even overwhelmed within them, to fore-think of the message they have to deliver. ⟨p. 45⟩See ver. 3. 4. Chap. 15. 5. & 1•. 9.