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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.
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.
4. Thus also we shall come to know how it is ⟨p. 127⟩like to go with us in the day of Judgement. Then it will be strictly enquired both what we received, and how we improved: then the faithful servant shall have his e•ge well done: and then the unprofitable servant shall receive his Condemnation, and surely it is good for us to know before hand if we may, whether we are like to stand or fall in the Judgment, and for our Direction in this Affair, let us take these Rules.
4. Thus also we shall come to know how it is ⟨p. 127⟩like to go with us in the day of Judgement. Then it will be strictly e•quired both what we recieved, and how we improved: then the faithful servant shall have his e•ge well done: and then the unprofitable servant shall recieve his Condemnation, and surely it is good for us to know before hand if we may, whether we are like to stand or fall in the Judgment, and for our Direction in this Affair, let us take these Rules.