Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy

The Watchman said] i. e. from God, and by his direction, we here see the Prophet gives them a serious Answer. Hence

Doct. What-ever end a people have in enquiring, it is the duty of Gods Ministers faithfully to answer them according to the mind and counsel of God. See Jer. 42. 19, 20. the people they dissembled, but Jeremiah tells them the truth.

Doct. What-ever end a people have in enquiring, it is the duty of Gods Ministers faithfully to answer them according to the minde and counsel of God. See Jer. 42. 19, 20. the people they dissembled, but Jeremiah tells them the truth.

Reas. 1. From the nature of their Office, which is to be Watchmen, which depends not upon the acceptance, or not acceptance of their Message, but is an absolute duty, whose neglect cannot be displeased withal: whether they will hear or no, Ezekiel must discharge his Office, Chap. 2.7. yea, it lies so upon him, as the neglect of it b••ngs him under the dreadful […] of Gods wrath. Chap. 2. 18. •e breaks his change if he neglect it, yea and hazards the undoing of ⟨p. 59⟩[…] whom he is set up to be a Watchman.

Reas. 1. From the nature of their Office, which is to be Watchmen, which depends not upon the acceptance, or not acceptance of their Message, but is an absolute duty, whose neglect cannot be displeased withall: whether they will hear or no, Ezekiel must discharge his Office, Chap. 2.7. yea, it lyes so upon him, as the neglect of it bngs him under the dreadfull of Gods wrath. Chap. 2. 18. e breaks his change if he neglect it, yea and hazards the undoing of