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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 which he gives to him about it.
The Person spoken to is called the Dresser of the Vineyard. Men were wont often to keep their Gardeners, to look after their vines and fruit-trees, that were skilled in that sort of Husbandry: and this cannot be meant of God, whom else-where Christ calleth The Husbandman, Joh. 15. 1. for it hath ⟨p. 94⟩been already observed that he is intended by the Owner. Some apply this to Christ, unto whom there is given a Mediatorial Dispensation of all affairs that concern his Church: but I rather suppose that it aims at the Ministry of the Gospel, whom it is certain that Jesus Christ, who is the Lord and Planter of this vineyard, employs in the manuring of his visible Church: they are therefore said to be Planters and W••erers, I Cor. 3, 6. and to be La•onrers together with God, chap. 4. 1.
The Person spoken to is called the Dresser of the Vineyard. Men were wont often to keep their Gardeners, to look after their vines and fruit-trees, that were skilled in that sort of Husbandry: and this cannot be meant of God, whom else-where Christ calleth The Husbandman, Joh. 15. 1. for it hath ⟨p. 94⟩been already observed that he is intended by the Owner. Some apply this to Christ, unto whom there is given a Mediatorial Dispensation of all affairs that concern his Church: but I rather suppose that it aims at the Ministry of the Gospel, whom it is certain that Jesus Christ, who is the Lord and Planter of this vineyard, employs in the manuring of his visible Church: they are therefore said to be Plnters and Werers,