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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 II.
Pity and pray for, and encourage Christ's Ministers in their work. They need no mans envy, but every mans compassion, and prayers too: they that are sensible of the weight of duty lying on them, do earnestly desire i• of every one that fears God. How often have we Paul importunately asking it of the Churches whom he writes unto? little do you know the sore Temptations, mighty discouragements, and many sinking thoughts which these Servants of Christ struggle withal, through sense of their own frailty, and the greatness of the work incumbent on them, and the solemnity of the Charge under the awe whereof they are, and the trembling thoughts of the amazing account they must shortly give in to the Lord Jesus Christ: give them then many a lift, by your ardent supplications for them. One of the Ancients ⟨p. 100⟩was wont to say, he often wondered •ow […] was possible that any Minister should ever be saved: and truly, it is rich grace that their hopes can only rely upon. Encourage them in their work; let them know, That their labour it not in vain in the Lord.
Pity and pray for, and encourage Christ's Ministers in their work. They need no mans envy, but every mans compassion, and prayers too: they that are sensible of the weight of duty lying on them, do earnestly desire i• of every one that fears God. How often have we Paul importunately asking it of the Churches whom he writes unto? little do you know the sore Temptations, mighty discouragements, and many sinking thoughts which these Servants of Christ struggle withal, through sense of their own frailty, and the greatness of the work incumbent on them, and the solemnity of the Charge under the aw whereof they are, and the trembling thoughts of the amazing account they must shortly give in to the Lord Jesus Christ: give them then many a lift, by your ardent supplications for them. One of the Ancients ⟨p. 100⟩