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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.
1. A Minister is then to be acknowledged faithful to his office relation, when he doth conscientiously attend all the duties of it, as he hath opportunity and ability. Fidelity in any duty, of any relation, must b• lock• upon in an Evangelical Sense, else the […] must cry, Lord enter not into Judgment. ⟨p. 101⟩Faithfulness appears in a care to mind the work we are in, to discharge the trust reposed in us, to spend and be spent in the work of Christ, and for the good of Souls▪ to be instant in season and out of season? To divide to every one the portion belonging to them, rebuke to whom rebuke, &c. And all this as God gives them strength and advantage, not shunning any thing which God hath Commanded them to do.
1. A Minister is then to be acknowledged faithful to his office relation, when he doth conscientiously attend all the duties of it, as he hath opportunity and ability. Fidelity in any duty, of any relation, must b• lock• upon in an Evangelical Sense, else the 〈…〉 must cry, Lord enter not into Judgment. ⟨p. 101⟩Faithfulness appears in a care to mind the work we are in, to discharge the trust reposed in us, to spend and be spent in the work of Christ, and for the good of Souls▪ to be instant in season and out of season? To divide to every one the portion belonging to them, rebuke to whom rebuke, &c. And all this as God gives them strength and advantage, not shunning any thing which God hath Commanded them to do.
2. That there are such placed by Christ in his Church, is evident. The love and care which Christ hath for it, cannot but put him upon it to provide such for it: and when his people have bin never so degenerate, and offered the greatest affronts to such as these, he hath yet sent them, and enabled them to bear all, and discharge their duty notwithstanding: It is he that thrusts out labourers into his harvest; and he can make them labourers indeed: there have bin such formerly; Paul was so, he could appeal to the consciences of this Ephesians.