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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.
3 Wherein the dreadfulness of this destruction may▪ be discovered.
A. That the destruction of all sinners is a fearful thing, must be acknowledged by all such as have any acquaintance with the nature ⟨p. 175⟩of the threatening of the Law, and the curse which is contained therein; but the ru•ne of those that have had the privilege of the Gospel, and a room in the vineyard, and are there cut down, is more peculiarly amazing and terrible, as having some aggravations in it which the other hath not, especially if we consider;
A. That the destruction of all sinners is a fearful thing, must be acknowledged by all such as have any acquaintance with the nature ⟨p. 175⟩of the threatning of the Law, and the curse which is contained therein; but the ru•ne of those that have had the priviledge of the Gospel, and a room in the vineyard, and are there cut down, is more peculiarly amazing and terrible, as having some aggravations in it which the other hath not, especially if we consider;
1. That God hath threatened these with more intolerable punishments: and he stands concerned for it in point of honour, that so he may be no loser in the end by any of his Creatures, which he should be, if he should not make such to be more eminent and observable instances of his displeasure. This therefore is the doom which Christ hath past upon the places where he had bin most conversant, and those with whom he had taken the greatest pains,