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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. This reckoning, if any thing, will quicken you to present duty. I am sure that it carries matter of awful awakening in it, and helps to convince us how much we are concerned to see that our matters be good; to think that we have to do with a God, who is so strict in observing and recording, and is consequently like to be so exaction reckoning, with us. Paul thought it to be an argument of strong persuasion, 2 Cor. 5. 11.
2. This reckoning, if any thing, will quicken you to present duty. I am sure that it carries matter of awful awakening in it, and helps to convince us how much we are concerned to see that our matters be good; to think that we have to do with a God, who is so strict in observing and recording, and is consequently like to be so exaction reckoning, with us. Paul thought it to be an argument of strong perswasion, 2 Cor. 5. 11.
3. This is the way to know you present state. We are all debtors to God for all that he is thus doing for us; and according to our Improvement of these things, so the account stands between him and us; in this way then we come, to a reckoning with God. We know what we are indebted to him, by reflecting upon all that he hath been doing for us; but we know upon what ground we stand with him, by a right computing what fruit there is of all this in us.
3. This is the way to know you present state. We are all dobtors to God for all that he is thus doing for us; and according to our Improvement of these things, so the account stands between him and us; in this way then we come, to a reckoning with God. We know what we are indebted to him, by reflecting upon all that he hath been doing for us; but we know upon what ground we stand with him, by a right computing what fruit there is of all this in us.