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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.
DOCTRINE I. That God keeps an exact account of all the Patience and Pains that he useth with sinners under the Gospel, and the improvement which they make thereof.
Thus is the Landlord here brought in making of particular remarks upon what he had done; and what he had observed.
There are several Propositions contained in this Doctrine, a brief explication of which will serve for the clearing up the Truth contained in it.
PROPOSITION I:
That God useth a great deal of Patience with some sinners under the Gospel. Though he affords them the means of Grace, and they do not presently give them due entertainment, but neglect them, yet he doth not always presently fall upon, and cut them off ⟨p. 114⟩