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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.
DOCTRINE III. There are those that are planted in the visible Church, that bear no fruit.
DOCTRINE III. THere are those that are planted in the visible Church, that bear no fruit.
This is a necessary inference from the owners Coming to this figtree, looking for fruit, and finding none, for if God be aimed at in this owner, as we have observed, he could not miss, or not find fruit, if there had bin any; Being omniscient. And though there be but one tree named, (as in the other parable of the man without a wedding garment, there is ⟨p. 75⟩one mentioned which is enough to intimate that such a thing may be, and so sufficient to put every one upon self-examination;) yet it is certain that it intimates that there are more.
This is a necessary inference from the owners Coming to this figtree, looking for fruit, and finding none, for if God be aimed at in this owner, as we have observed, he could not miss, or not find fruit, if there had bin any; Being omniscient. And though there be but one tree named, (as in the other parable of the man without a wedding garment, there is ⟨p. 75⟩one mentioned which is enough to intimate that such a thing may be, and so sufficient to put every one upon self-examination;) yet it is certian that it intimates that there are more.