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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. That God is in Scripture recorded to take notice of such Individuals as men would least think of. Such as we would account to be least of all thought of; God Eyes them: the poor and despised in the World, whom men regard not, yet God observes them, and takes notice how they carry it, and he accounts it his great Glory so to do, Psal. 102. 17. Such actions also as we might think lay most out of Observation; their secret and re•ired duties which they are engaged in; let but a Na• thanael get under a fig-tree to pray, and it shall be recorded: nay so curious is he in his Observation, that there cannot a tear fall from them, but he puts it in his bottle, nor ⟨p. 64⟩[…] •igh pass, but he writes it down in has ••ovh Psal. •6. 8.
3. That God is in Scripture recorded to take notice of such Individuals as men would least think of. Such as we would account to be least of all thought of; God Eies them: the poor and despised in the World, whom men regard not, yet God observes them, and takes notice how they carry it, and he accounts it his great Glory so to do, Psal. 102. 17. Such actions also as we might think lay most out of Observation; their secret and re•ired duties which they are engaged in; let but a Na• thanael get under a fig-tree to pray, and it shall be recorded: nay so curious is he in his Observation, that there cannot a tear fall from them, but he puts it in his bottle, nor ⟨p. 64⟩〈…〉 •igh pass, but he writes it down in has ••ovh Psal. •6. 8.