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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.
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All the Improvement that I shall make of this Doctrine, is in this one Use; Let it be a warning-peal to all the Sinners in Zion; to awaken you from your security; and make you afraid any longer to live unprofitably under the Gospel and Ordinances: and if there be any solemnity in this truth, make it your own, and lay it to heart; and there are these two things which I would entreat of you that you would, for that end, employ your serious thoughts about.
1. Think what reason there is for you to expect that Gods patience is almost wearied out with you: possibly you may be ready to please your selves with contrary imaginations; and say there is no fear at all; but be not brutish and sottish: and that none concerned herein may be omitted, in this warning, let me press it upon:
1. Think what reason there is for you to expect that Gods patience is almost wearied out with you: possibly you may be ready to please your selves with contrary imaginations; and say there is no fear at all; but be not bruitish and so•tish: and that none concerned herein may be omitted, in this warning, let me press it upon: