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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. They have here also sufficient direction afforded them, to point out the way to them, in which they may serve God, & bear the fruits of obedience, Mic. 6. 8. he hath showed thee the way O Man! the world are unacquainted with this, the way of natural obedience is but […] to them, but that of Gospel obedience is altogether hidden from them▪ Ro. 3.17. the way of peace have they not known. But these have such discoveries, Psal. 147. 16. he she•eth his word unto Jacob, his Statutes and Judgments unto Israel. The Object of their obedience, viz: God in Christ, is here made known in his Glorious excellencies and perfections; the way how fallen man may serve God acceptably, i. e, by Faith in Christ, and grace derived from him, is here declared: the Duties in which he is thus to be obeyed, and the sins that are to be avoided, are here deciphered, and from time to time explained unto […].
2. They have here also sufficient direction afforded them, to point out the way to them, in which they may serve God, & bear the fruits of obedience, Mic. 6. 8. he hath shewed thee the way O Man! the world are unacquainted with this, the way of natural obedience is but 〈…〉 to them, but that of Gospel obedience is altogether hidden from them▪ Ro. 3.17. the way of peace have they not known. But these have such discoveries, Psal. 147. 16. he she•eth his word unto Jacob, his Statutes and Judgments unto Israel. The Object of their obedience, viz: God in Christ, is here made known in his Glorious excellencies and perfections; the way how fallen man may serve God acceptably, i. e, by Faith in Christ, and grace derived from him, is here declared: the Duties in which he is thus to be obeyed, and the sins that are to be avoided, are here deciphered, and from time to time explained unto 〈…〉.