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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.
USE II.
Let this be for a word of solemn warning to all that are in the visible Church, to beware of barrenness there, and what greater caution can there be set before Christians, than the consideration that God looks after every one of them, to see how they behave themselves in pursuit of the profession which they have made? for certainly God is not an idle spectator; and this will hereafter be made awfully to appear. Think what a shame it is to be in the Vineyard, and yet to be unfruitful; and then add to think, that the Lord of the Vineyard sees this, and will let us sooner or later know that he sees it too; and can it be for our comfort to be so found and charged by him in the day of accounts? do not your own Consciences sometimes reflect and accuse you, and ⟨p. 71⟩tell you how unworthily you carry it, under all the care and husbandry that is laid out upon you? now when they so do, add to say as the Apostle, 1 Joh. 3. 20. if our own heart condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and knows all things: But,