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

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 b••ngs him under the dreadfull 〈…〉 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. 2. Because God will have a rebellious people left inexcusable, Ezek. 2. 5. though the prime end, and natural tendency of the Ministry, be for the Conversion and good of the people to whom they are sent, yet God in just judgement will sometimes have it to be to increase their Condemnation, and to make their misery more dreadful: Line upon line, &c. is sometimes given to make a people stumble and […] Isa. 28.13