~50 Of the Impl)rfance and Difficulty ·hut certainly a death-bed repentence is fd– .,dom ·fincere ,: .and it is -hard either for the Minifl:er or the n1an hitnfClf, to tell whe- · lther it be on1y the fear ·of hell, or a true :and godlyforrowthat he fedeth in his fout _A11 that a Minifl:er can do, -is, to prefs him to a'll poffihle ferioufnefs, ·and to rcfign llirnfelf -ro God for the event; or to lay a:,efore hin1 .in general; the tern1s and condi– m:ions .of th~ gofpel covenant: the applicacarion w.fH be ·hard and uncertain. ... Thefe, and many n1ore, are ·the diffitui– t1es of the Miniileria.l funCtion. It was not without a great dea'l ·of reafon that oqe of tt.11e fathers d-id call it, Onus angelicis hurne– ri:s formid&ndttm :, -"A weight ·under which .£, ange1s fhoulders might 0rink."' Hence ~t was tb:rt the holy n1en ofo1d have been (omig'11ti'ly afraid to undertake it. Jeremi– rllb, who was fanB:ified from the w·on1b, and mda.ined a prophet to the nations, when ~'le received his coJnniiffion, he cried out, Ah, Lr;rd God, behold, I cannot JPeak, fir I :am achild*. And Eze'kiel, though fl:rength– ened and confirmed by God, ' yet. went un– wiliingly; yea, in the bitternefl and indig– IJ(£/t() fJ of his jpirit t. And, in the anci– ent ~hurch, the n1ore ·eminent and great perfons ' • 1if: jer. i. '· t Eze'k. iii. ·f ~ ·
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