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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.
1. That there is an essential Omnipresence of God with all his creatures: This is one of the Divine Attributes or perfections which belong to God; it belongs to his prerogative, and is fully and frequently ascribed to him in the Scripture: Because he is an Infinite, Immense and Uncomprehended Being, he must needs therefore be every where: because place cannot contain him, he must of necessity contain all place: hence that, I Kings 8. 27. behold, the Heaven, and Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee; the Heaven of Heavens, is the third Heaven, which is the utmost limit of place, and there is none beyond it: hence there is no getting away from him, or absconding ourselves any where, where he is not, Psal, 139. 7, &c.
2. Hence it follows that he must certainly be Omniscient. If he be every where, he ⟨p. 58⟩must needs know every thing. Not only doth God assume this Attribute to himself, but it also is necessarily inferred from his Omnipresence. We are to conceive of God under the Notion of an Intelligent Being; knowledge is therefore ascribed to him; and that not in the concrete only but in the abstract, without an Hyperbole, Prov. 8. 14. I am Understanding, wheresoever then God is, he is there by his knowledge: his knowledge is his Being, and must be Inseparable from it; and, because his perfections are himself, and he is an undivided Being, where he is, there he is in all his Attributes; although he makes the manifestations of them to the Creatures according to his Pleasure.
2. Hence it follows that he must certainly be Omniscient. If he be every where, he ⟨p. 58⟩must needs know every thing. Not only doth God assume this Atribute to himself, but it also is necessarily inferred from his Omnipresence. We are to conceive of God under the Notion of an Intelligent Being; knowledg is therefore ascribed to him; and that not in the concrete only but in the abstract, without an Hyperbole,