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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.
4. There is also many times a great neglect in Parents of doing their Duty to the•• Children, in order to their being fruitful. They love to have Church Privileges for their Children; they cannot bear that they should not be acknowledged Christians, and not have the badge of Christs Covenant upon them; but alas! this is all they mind how woeful neglects of Duty are there […] such Parents? they do not teach their Children the Principles of the Oracles of God, do ⟨p. 83⟩not counsel and command them to serve God, do not restrain them from the exorbitances that their youthful carnal minds naturally incline them to, do not set them a good example of Holiness, b•t often give them an ill example▪ do not pray with them, nor see that they attend upon the means of grace, and give an account of their profiting: and Children thus left, will run after sin fast enough; and God also thus punisheth Parent's neglects.
4. There is also many times a great neg••ct in Parents of doing their Duty to the•• Children, in order to their being fruitful. They love to have Church Priviledges for their Children; they cannot bear that they should not be acknowledged Christians, and not have the badge of Christs Covenant upon them; but alas! this is all they mind how woful neglects of Duty are there 〈…〉 such Parents? they do not teach their Children the Principles of the Oracles of God, do ⟨p. 83⟩not counsel and command them to serve God, do not restrain them from the exorbitances that their youthful carnal minds naturally encline them to, do not set them a good example of Holiness, b•t often give them an ill example▪ do not pray with them, nor see that they attend upon the means of grace, and give an account of their profiting: and Children thus left, will run after sin fast enough; and God also thus punisheth Parent's neglects.