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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. Consider that if you ripen in wickedness apace, it is a sad sign that you are making great haste to be ready for cutting down; and are there no young ones among us that are concerned in this? who not only live in a state of unregeneracy, but also grow vain, and profane, and lewd! are there none of our Children that have learnt to curse and swear, and profane Gods holy Sabbaths? that shake off the yoke of family Government, and keep company with riotous persons? that have been privately by their Parents, and publicly in the Ordinances warned, and reproved, and yet have despised all, and wilfully pursue their old courses, and grow worse and ⟨p. 179⟩worse after all; and have you not heard that when it comes to this, that persons will not be reformed, they are then next to past hope? and what but destruction belongs to such? and if it be so, with you, as young as you are, you are old enough for God to make monuments of his holy jealousy, see for this, Jer. 5. 7, 8, 9.
2. Consider that if you ripen in wickedness apace, it is a sad sign that you are making great haste to be ready for cutting down; and are there no young ones among us that are concerned in this? who not only live in a state of unregeneracy, but also grow vain, and profane, and leud! are there none of our Children that have learnt to curse and swear, and profane Gods holy Sabbaths? that shake off the yoke of family Government, and keep company with riotous persons? that have been privately by their Parents, and publick•y in the Ordinances warned, and reproved, and yet have despised all, and wilfully pursue their old courses, and grow worse and ⟨p. 179⟩worse after all; and have you not heard that when it comes to this, that persons will not be reformed, they are then next to past hope? and what but destruction belongs to such? and if it be so, with you, as young as you are, you are old enough for God to make monuments of his holy jealousie, see for this, Jer. 5. 7, 8, 9.