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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.
6. There is often a Judicial Blinding and Hardening fails upon them, by Gods righteous Judgment, God affords them row•ing and awakening means, and they sleep under them, and harden their hearts against them, and will not comply with his calls and counsels, and God hereupon sends them a penal hardness, whereby they are confirmed in it, so it was with them, Psal. 81. 11, 12. and such an one •el• upon them, Deut. 29. 4. yea this was the amazing errand which God told the Prophet that he sent him upon, Isa. 6. 9, 10. and how can such bear fruit, when Christ saith to them as he did to the fig-tree, Never more let fruit be found on thee? Now all these things may satisfy us how it may so be, that all the means may fail, as to mens being fruitful under the enjoyment of them. But then the question still remains, viz.
6. There is often a Judicial Blinding and Hardning fails upon them, by Gods righteous Judgment, God affords them row•ing and awakening means, and they sleep under them, and harden their hearts against them, and will not comply with his calls and counsels, and God hereupon sends them a penal hardness, whereby they are confirmed in it, so it was with them, Psal. 81. 11, 12. and such an one •el• upon them, Deut. 29. 4. yea this was the amazing errand which God told the Prophet that he sent him upon, Isa. 6. 9, 10. and how can such bear fruit, when Christ saith to them as he did to the fig-tree, Never more let fruit be found on thee? Now all these things may satisfie us how it may so be, that all the means may fail, as to mens being fruitful under the enjoyment of them. But then the question still remains, viz.