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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.
USE IV.
Let this afford a solemn word of Advice to Parents, It is a favour of God to you, ⟨p. 92⟩that your Children are in the Vineyard: but rest not in it, God hath made it your duty to endeavour that they may be trees of renown there: your families should be nurseries for the Church of God; and it is an Office that you bear, to dress the nursery that is under your charge: if you neglect it, and your Children thereupon prove to be unprofitable and wild Olives, briars instead of Fig trees, it will be a Righteous Judgment of God upon you; and they also will have reason to accuse you another day, Be quickened to your Duty; they will not bear of themselves, pains must be taken, and though the blessing depends upon God, yet he is wont to confer it upon us when we are in the faithful use of the means.
Let this afford a solemn word of Advice to Parents, It is a favour of God to you, ⟨p. 92⟩that your Children are in the Vineyard: but rest not in it, God hath made it your duty to endeavour that they may be trees of renown there: your families should be nurseries for the Church of God; and it is an Office that you bear, to dress the nursery that is under your charge: if you neglect it, and your Children thereupon prove to be unprofitable and wild Olives, briars instead of Figtrees, it will be a Righteous Judgment of God upon you; and they also will have reason to accuse you another day, Be quickned to your Duty; they will not bear of themselves, pains must be taken, and though the blessing depends upon God, yet he is wont to conferr it upon us when we are in the saithful use of the means.