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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.
1. All Profane persons that are in the visible Church; and it is a matter of sad lamentation, that there are too many such, who call themselves Christians, and yet are always doing the works of the flesh, of which we have a Catalogue, Gal. 5. 19, &c. they mind nothing that is good, but are wholly addicted to vanity and debauchery, and yet they can boast of their Church-privileges, and bolster themselves up in wickedness by them: such were they, Jer. 7. 9, 10. the very lives and conversations of these declared them to be graceless, Isa. 3. 9. the cursed fruits that they bear discover that they have an evil root of bitterness in them; and charity must put out its eyes, before it can think better of them: God will never acknowledge the vintage of Gomorrah to be fruit.
1. All Profane persons that are in the visible Church; and it is a matter of sad lamentation, that there are too many such, who call themselves Christians, and yet are always doing the works of the flesh, of which we have a Catalogue, Gal. 5. 19, &c. they mind nothing that is good, but are wholly addicted to vanity and debauchery, and yet they can boast of their Church-priviledges, and bolster themselves up in wickedness by them: such were they, Jer. 7. 9, 10. the very lives and conversations of these declared them to be graceless, Isa. 3. 9. the cursed fruits that they bear discover that they have an evil root of bitterness in them; and charity must put out its eyes, before it can think better of them: God will never acknowledge the vintage of Gomorrah to be fruit.