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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. There is a natural barrenness unto good in all Adams Posterity. Man indeed was made at first in the Image of God, which was a fertile principle in him, and both enabled and disposed him to the Service of God; but the fall hath lost him that power, and as he comes into the world in a state of Apostasy, he could do nothing at all that […] acceptable to God; his soul is become such a soil, as no good plant will grow in it; it will bring forth nothing but thorns and thistles. Mans impotency to holy duties, is one part of the misery fallen upon him by sin; and ⟨p. 81⟩it is such as hath left him neither ability nor disposition to it, Rom. 3. 12. &c. for if a man must be good in order to his being capable of doing good, the natural man is capable of doing none: for he is Conceived […] sin, & goes astray from the Womb, speaking lies.
1. There is a natural barrenness unto good in all Adams Posterity. Man indeed was made at first in the Image of God, which was a fertile principle in him, and both enabled and disposed him to the Service of God; but the fall hath lost him that power, and as he comes into the world in a state of Apostasy, he could do nothing at all that 〈…〉 acceptable to God; his soul is become such a soil, as no good plant will grow in it; it will bring forth nothing but thorns and thistles. Mans impotency to holy duties, is one part of the misery fallen upon him by sin; and ⟨p. 81⟩it is such as hath left him neither ability nor disposition to it, Rom. 3. 12. &c. for if a man must be good in order to his being capable of doing good, the natural man is capable of doing none: for he is Conceived 〈…〉 sin, & goes astray from the Womb, speaking lies.