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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.
USE I.
This shows us the way how men come to be the amazing monuments of Gods wrath. When God hath a purpose to suffer sinners to bring upon themselves, the most astonishing impressions of his indignation, and to fill up such a measure as shall make them peculiar Instances of his revenging Justice: he placeth them in the Church, gives them leave to fit under clearest Gospel light, and to enjoy all the advantages of the means to the highest, to have line upon line, and to suffer ⟨p. 141⟩them to stand a long while in this state, un•• they have despised a world of endeavours used with them, and tired out a long continued patience, before he falls upon them, and cuts them off; that by abusing the best of mercies, and wearing out the most restrained forbearance, they may fall at last under the load of so great guilt, as will drag them down into the depths of destruction: and by this means, though for the present he seems to be a loser by these men, yet he doth fully recover his injured glory at their hands in the winding up: Hence,
This shews us the way how men come to be the amazing monuments of Gods wrath. When God hath a purpose to suffer sinners to bring upon themselves, the most astonishing impressions of his indignation, and to fill up such a measure as shall make them peculiar Instances of his revenging Justice: he placeth them in the Church, gives them leave to fit under clearest Gospel light, and to enjoy all the advantages of the means to the highest, to have line upon line, and to suffer ⟨p. 141⟩them to stand a long while in this state, un•• they have despised a world of endeavours used with them, and tired out a long contied patience, before he falls upon them, and cuts them off; that by abusing the best of ercies, and wearing out the most restrained forbearance, they may fall at last under the load of so great guilt, as will drag them down into the depths of destruction: and by this means, though for the present he seems to be a loser by these men, yet he doth fully recover his injured glory at their hands in the winding up: Hence,