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The barren fig trees doom. Or, A brief discourse wherein is set forth the…
The barren fig trees doom. Or, A brief discourse wherein is set forth the woeful danger of all who abide unfruitful under Gospel privileges, and Gods husbandry. Being the substance of sixteen sermons preached on Christ's parable of the fig-tree. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Matthew]The barren fig trees doom. Or, A brief discourse wherein is set forth the woful danger of all who abide unfruitful under Gospel priviledges, and Gods husbandry. Being the substance of sixteen sermons preached on Christ's parable of the fig-tree. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Matthew]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
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.
USE 1.
For Information: Learn hence,
1. How injurious they are to these, who ⟨p. 33⟩deny them a room in Gods Vineyard, who disown and reject them from having any relation to the visible Church of Christ; who reckon them among those that are without; and consequently debar them of, and thrust them from these privileges; such there be, but what wrong they do to these, nay how much they set themselves against Christ, is easy to observe; are we wiser than he? or shall we dare to control him? shall he say, I have planted these in my Vineyard, and shall we say they are in the Wilderness? A great reason why many do thus, ariseth from their mistaking & misapplying the word [Church] and want of distinguishing between the Church of the first-born, & the visible Church, and the privileges which are peculiar, and those that are common: Church, is sometimes taken for the Called and Converted, every visible professor is not of this, Rom 9 6. all are not Israel, that are of Israel. Sometimes for all such as are externally in Covenant with God, and so it includes them, Psal. 50. 5. There are some benefits that none do actually partake in but the Converted, and these are the more inward saving benefits of Christ, which are applied to them, and only offered to others. There are other privileges are common, being given to the Church visible, and serviceable to Conversion, as well as to Edification; and these have ⟨p. 34⟩all visible Professors a share in:
1. How injurious they are to these, who