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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.
4. We may here finally observe, That God oftentimes signifies his displeasure against unprofitable Professors, to his faithful Ministers. Thus is the Owner of the Vineyard here brought in, deliberating with the Vine-dresser, complaining against, and threatening of the figtree. ⟨p. 106⟩How God signified his mind of old to his Prophets, is plainly intimated in Scripture, he used to appear to them in dreams, visions by Angels, &c. whence their Prophesies were delivered in the Name of the Lord: and sometimes they were against the body of the people, when there was a general degeneracy, sometimes against particular persons. How he discovers himself in these respects to his Servants in Gospel-times, since extraordinary Revelations are ceased, •ay seem to be more difficult to apprehend: only we are told that we have a more sure word of Prophecy: and out of doubt there is still a truth in that which is expressed, Amos 3. 7.
4. We may here finally observe, That God oftentimes signifies his displeasure against unprofitable Professors, to his faithful Ministers. Thus is the Owner of the Vineyard here brought in, deliberating with the Vine-dresser, complaining against, and threatning of the figtree. ⟨p. 106⟩How God signified his mind of old to his Prophets, is plainly intimated in Scripture, he used to appear to them in dreams, visions by Angels, &c. whence their Prophesies were delivered in the Name of the Lord: and sometimes they were against the body of the people, when there was a general degeneracy, sometimes against particular persons. How he discovers himself in these respects to his Servants in Gospel-times, since extraordinary Revelations are ceased, •ay seem to be more difficult to apprehend: only we are told that we have a more sure word of Prophesie: and out of doubt there is still a truth in that which is expressed, Amos 3. 7.