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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.
2. In what respect he may be said thus to expect it?
3. What reason there is why he may justly so expect?
1. What fruit it is that God expects?
A. Not any fruit of what kind soever; for if so, then God would never miss of his expectation. All men are doing something o• other; every man hath his works which he must be called to an account for, be judged by, and receive a recompense accordingly, 2 Cor. 5. 10. there are the fruits of the flesh, as well as of the spirit; but there are some fruits that are reckoned as worse than none, and let men have never so many of them, they are for all accounted barren, Hos. •0. 1. every man looks that his Trees should ⟨p. 41⟩