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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.
2. Why it must come to this when Gods patience is wearied?
3. Wherein the dreadfulness of this destruction may be discovered?
1. What is contained or implied in this cutting down.
A. The Metaphor here used, suitably represents those Judgments of God which fall upon unprofitable ones, in the progress of them; we may therefore take up the allusion in several particulars.
A. The Metaphor here used, sutably represents those Judgments of God which fall upon unprofitable ones, in the progress of them; we may therefore take up the allusion in several particulars.