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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.
2. The Advice he gives to him that Dressed it, Cut it down why cumbereth it the ground.
4. The Intercession of the Dresser for the fig-tree, verse 8, 9.
These may be spoken to in their order; and several weighty and seasonable Observations may be made upon each of them.
1. The Subject of which the Parable is spoken: A certain man had a Fig-tree planted in his Vineyard. The Spiritual meaning of these Parabolical Expressions is to be enquired after: and here; What is meant by the certain man? What by the Vineyard? What by the Fig-tree? And what by its being planted in the Vineyard?
1. By the Certain Man, is certainly intended God, being to deal with men as men, he resembleth himself to a man; and it is not limited to this or that man in particular, but expressed of any man, under such a respect; to show that it is of universal consideration; and it is sure, that God not only challengeth a propriety in all the world as his; but more particularly in his Church, as standing under special relation to him: and therefore,