N00458:16
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.
One Design of Christ's Parables is, by clothing Spiritual Things with Earthly Language, to accommodate them the more to Humane Understandings, and to show the rationality of them, by resembling them to such things as among men are accounted highly rational; and so to insinuate into the Affections.
One Desig• of Christ's Parables is, by cloathing Spiritual Things with Earthly Language, to accommodate them the more to Humane Understandings, and to shew the rationality of them, by resembling them to such things as among men are accounted highly rational; and so to insinuate into the Affections.
The scope of this Parable is to show what i• the true and proper standing that men have in the Visible Church, under all the Privileges therein conferred upon them. Men are apt to mistake themselves in this, and to grow secure, but Christ would have them to know the thing as it is. The Parable is only proposed, the Reddition is left to ou• Meditation, and is easily gathered from the occasion. The Application is nextly personal; for the design is to express the state of the Fig-tree, and not of the Vineyard.
The scope of this Parable is to shew what i• the true and proper standing that men have in the Visible Church, under all the Priviledges therein conferred upon them. Men are apt to mistake themselves in this, and to grow secure, but Christ would have them to know the thing as it is. The Parable is only proposed, the Reddition is left to ou• Meditation, and is easily gathered from the occasion. The Application is nextly personal; for the design is to express the state of the Fig-tree, and not of the Vineyard.