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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 II.
For Exhortation: Let this then be a loud call to every one in the vineyard to be fruitful. Doth God expect this of you? be advised then to answer his expectation, let not this Husbandman lose his labour and cost; and for motive, consider,
1. God will certainly be angry with you, if you do not thus do. It will be a very great provocation to him; it will put him upon thinking what to do with you; he will be weary of his vineyard. Should the Husbandman lose his cost and labour, plant vines and they bear nothing, set fig-trees, and they bring forth unpleasant fruits; and after many essays to make it serviceable, it rather grows worse, will he not be provoked to throw it up? and so God threatens. Isa. 5. 4. there is not a readier way to bring ruin God is not so engaged as not to do it, what saith he to Jerusalem? Jer. 22. 6. sur•• […] will make thee a Wilderness, and Cities not Inhabited.
1. God will certainly be angry with you, if you do not thus do. It will be a very great provocation to him; it will put him upon thinking what to do with you; he will be weary of his vineyard. Should the Husbandman lose his cost and labour, plant vines and they bear nothing, set fig-trees, and they bring forth unpleasant fruits; and after many essays to make it serviceable, it rather grows worse, will he not be provoked to throw it up? and so God threatens.