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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. Your fruitfulness will be your profit, it will turn to your account; God is not advantaged in himself by your righteousness, Job 35. 6. if thou be righteous, what profitest thou him? if you are wise, it will be for your selves: the fruits of Holiness, which Gods People bring forth in this life, are the seeds of Glory; there is a great recompense of reward that God hath provided to bestow upon such: Gods Name indeed hath the honour of it, and he deserves it; but the profit returns into the bosom of his people, the more fruit you yield the more store is laid up for you in heaven, and you shall have the comfort of it, when you rest from your labours, and your works shall follow you.
4. How unreasonable is it that you should ⟨p. 55⟩not serve and glorify God in your lives? doth not every thing he doth for you bespeak it? is it not the voice of all the privileges, of all the means that you enjoy? doth not every counsel, warning, promise call for it? every mercy invite you to it? every affliction call upon and tell you that God expects it?
4. How unreasonable is it that you should ⟨p. 55⟩not serve and glorifie God in your lives? doth not every thing he doth for you bespeak it? is it not the voice of all the priviledges, of all the means that you enjoy? doth not every counsel, warning, promise call for it? every mercy invite you to it? every affliction call upon and tell you that God expects it?