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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. All Legallists. I distinguish these from Hypocrites, because the other are mere stage-players and dissemblers, whereas these are real and conscientious in what they do; they have an enlightened Conscience in them, and moral principles that are active, and they are led by them. The duties of first, •nd second Table are carefully practised by them, and yet not, as the others to be seen of men merely, but to answer their Consciences, and to earn Heaven and Happiness: they are built upon the Old▪ Covenant, ⟨p. 79⟩and hope• to comply with the terms of it: or they make the Gospel but a Covenant of works, and think that if they do their best, God will accept them, and this maketh them very laborious: but still, all this is not fruit, it needs something to make it of the right Kind; it is wrought by their own strength, and will prove loss. Of this stamp was Paul in his Pharisaism, but see what an esteem he set upon this afterwards, Phil. 3. 4. &c,
3. All Legallists. I distinguish these from Hypocrites, because the other are meer stage-players and dissemblers, whereas these are real and conscientious in what they do; they have an enlightened Conscience in them, and moral principles that are active, and they are led by them. The duties of first, •nd second Table are carefully practised by them, and yet not, as the others to be seen of men meerly, but to answer their Consciences, and to earn Heaven and Happiness: they are built upon the Old▪ Covenant, ⟨p. 79⟩and hope• to comply with the termes of it: or they make the Gospel but a Covenant of works, and think that if they do their best, God will accept them, and this maketh them very laborious: but still, all this is not fruit, it needs something to make it of the right Kind; it is wrought by their own strength, and will prove loss. Of this stamp was Paul in his Pharisaism, but see what an esteem he set upon this afterwards,