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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.
To me] i. e. Isaiah.
Out of Seir] Mount Seir lying in the Land of the Edomites, is taken for the whole Land of Idumea.
Watchman, what, &c.] By Watchman is meant the Prophet, these are called Watchmen by God, because he sets them to discern his wrath, and give warning to the people. The meaning or intent of the Question is diversly understood: I find a twofold interpretation.
Watchman, what, &c.] By Watchman is meant the Prophet, these are called Watchmen by God, because he sets them to discern his wrath, and give warning to the people. The meaning or intent of the Question is diversly understood: I finde a twofold interpretation.
1. Some take it to be an expression of the bitterness and anguish of the Edomites, concerning the future event of those troubles which were beginning upon them: it seems War was threatened by the Assyrian; through which anguish they send to the Prophet, to know what was likely to ensue, what troubles they should meet withal: for Night is here a Metaphor of the time of affliction, as it is often in Scripture,