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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.
DOCTRINE I. That God will not always bear with fruitless professors in his Visible Church.
This Doctrine ariseth from the connection of the edict here given out, with the complaint made in the former part of the verse. It is q.d. I have been thus long waiting to no purpose, and I can bear no longer. We have already taken notice, that God useth much patience with many sinners, and that this patience of his is arbitrary, but we now come to observe, that though he bear a great while, yet he will not so do ⟨p. 150⟩for ever; that he may be weary with forbearing, that sinners may by their continuing impenitent tire him out, and incense his indignation against them; that if they have a day of grace given them to repent in, and they repent not, it will come to an end Here we may enquire into,
This Doctrine ariseth from the connexion of the edict here given out, with the complaint made in the former part of the verse. It is q.d. I have been thus long waiting to no purpose, and I can bear no longer. We have already taken notice, that God useth much patience with many sinners, and that this patience of his is arbitrary, but we now come to observe, that though he bear a great while, yet he will not so do ⟨p. 150⟩for ever; that he may be weary with forbearing, that sinners may by their continuing impenitent tire him out, and incense his indignation against them; that if they have a day of grace given them to repent in, and they repent not, it will come to an end Here we may enquire into,