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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.
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. Jer. 48. 31, 32. & 4. 19, 20.
2. They are a burden to the People to whom they are sent. This in two respects:
(1.) They are a burden of grief and sorrow to the godly, who hear and fear, Hab. 3. 16.