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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.
2. How it appears that he doth thus by every individual?
A. Besides the consideration, of what hath been already mentioned, that Gods all-knowledge respects all individuals, both persons & actions, and that God hath […] special glory ⟨p. 62⟩that he is concerned for in his visible Church below; these things are to be observed.
A. Besides the consideration, of what hath been already mentioned, that Gods all-knowledge respects all individuals, both persons & actions, and that God hath 〈…〉 special glory ⟨p. 62⟩that he is concerned for in his visible Church below; these things are to be observed.
1. That God doth particularly and personally either Commend or Reprove these. It is not only his Church in General, or these and these bodies of Professors, that he so expresseth himself unto, but to persons also. An evident instance for this we have in Cain and Abel, Gen. 4. Begin. And this is intimated by Christ in another Parable, Viz. of the Wedding Supper, where the Lord observed that one person that had not on the Wedding Garment, and treats him accordingly. If a Church do well in General, yet if it hath within it such as do otherwise, and provoke God, he tells them of such, and reproves them for suffering them, Rev. 2. 14. 20. If the visible Church be gone to decay, and there be a Noah in it that is righteous, God notes him, and commends him fo it: if there be one good Child in Jeroboam's wicked family, he is specified; if there is one cursed Cha in Noah's family, he hath his brand.