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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. This Omniscience of God must needs comprise in it a distinct knowledge of all Creatures in particular, a•• all their action. Universal Understanding cannot be Confined merely to Universals or to Generals, but it must reach to individuals; and that not merely as to their beings or natures, but their actions too; none of these must be hid from him; nay it saith that he minds, regards, takes particular notice of them; he is for this reason said to count them, Job. 31. 4. and, to be acquainted […], Psal. 139. 13 And this knowledge is extended to the most secret things, even the Hearts ⟨p. 59⟩of men, which are very deep; the thoughts which others can hardly guess at; we are then assured that there is no hiding of Counsel from him. God is all Eye, & that eye is sixth upon all things, and therefore is said to behold them, and look upon them Psal. 33. 13. 14.
3. This Omniscience of God must needs comprize in it a distinct knowledge of all Creatures in particular, a•• all their action. Universal Understanding cannot be Confined meerly to Universals or to Generals, but it must reach to individuals; and that not meerly as to their beings or natures, but their actions too; none of these must be hid from him; nay it saith that he minds, regards, takes particular notice of them; he is for this reason said to count them, Job. 31. 4. and, to be acquainted 〈…〉, Psal. 139. 13 And this knowledge is extended to the most secret things, even the Hearts ⟨p. 59⟩of men, which are very deep; the thoughts which others can hardly guess at; we are then assured that there is no hiding of Counsel from him. God is all Eye, & that eye is fixt upon all things, and therefore is said to behold them, and look upon them