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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 II.
Let it be for an awakening word of terror to all unfruitful Professors, who have been a long while under Gospel dispensations. One would think it should fill the hearts of sinners with consternation to consider of this Truth; that all the while they live under the enjoyment of these favours of God, they are increasing their account and inflaming the reckoning. Doth every neglected opportunity add one article against you, and increase the score of your guilt, think then how much there is heaped up against you, and ask your own souls how you shall endure, when all this shall come to be charged upon you• ▪ but ⟨p. 142⟩give me leave to turn this terror into a word of advice; therefore.
Let it be for an awakening word of terror to all unfruitful Professors, who have been a long while under Gospel dispensations. One would think it should fill the hearts of sinners with consternation to consider of this Truth; that all the while they live under the enjoyment of these favours of God, they are encreasing their account and enflaming the reckoning. Doth every neglected opportunity add one article against you, and encrease the score of your guilt, think then how much there is heaped up against you, and ask your own souls how you shall endure, when all this shall come to be charged upon you• ▪ but ⟨p. 142⟩give me leave to turn this terror into a word of advice; therefore.