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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
SERMON I. › Doctrine 1: DOCTRINE I. The Visible Church is Gods Vineyard.
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.
1. In what respect it is resembled by a Vineyard?
2. On what account it is said to be God• Vineyard;
1. In what respect it is resembled by a Vineyard?
A. To distinguish it from the rest of the World; which is therefore compared to a Wilderness, in Opposition to the Church: and hence all those things wherein […] is a difference between those two, and one is rendered ⟨p. 7⟩in a better state than the other, are here to be considered: we may in particular refer to Isa. 5. 1, 2. where we have the principal things taken notice of, Viz.
A. To distinguish it from the rest of the World; which is therefore compared to a Wilderness, in Opposition to the Church: and hence all those things wherein is a difference between those two, and one is rendred