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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.
3. What reason there is why he may justly so expect?
A. If their be any reason for an husbandman to expect fruit, of a tree that he hath laid out cost and care upon, then well may God look for it of those that are planted in his visible Church, for there is nothing wanting there as to means for their help hereunto▪ therefore we have the demand, Isai, 5. 4. What could I have done more? this will appear if we consider.
1. They have sufficient Conviction afforded them of the unreasonableness of Disobedience, and reasonableness of Obedience. In the Word and Ordinances these discoveries […] plentifully made to them, in which the nature, and evil fruits of sin are plainly see before them, the beauty of Holiness, and ⟨p. 48⟩rationality as well as profitableness of the Service of God is made clear by several Demonstrations: They are but poor, dark and glimmering notions of these things that the Heathen discover, by the best improvement of the light of nature; but in the visible Church, these things are from time to time exhibited, and the undeniableness of these truths made to appear.
1. They have sufficient Conviction afforded them of the unreasonableness of Disobedience, and reasonableness of Obedience. In the Word and Ordinances these discoveries 〈…〉 ••entifully made to them, in which the nature, and evil fruits of sin are plainly see before them, the beauty of Holiness, and ⟨p. 48⟩