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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 the Axe lies at your root. God hath brought it thither; are there none of the fore-runners of your ruin come upon you? are there no spiritual beginnings towards it? doth not the spirit of God begin to withdraw his strivings in the means of grace? do you not find your selves more careless and secure under, and more impenetrable by the Word of God which is dispensed to you […] are you not more delighted with, and more violently set in your hearts to live still in your sinful courses? are there no temporal fore-runners of this? do not Gods Servants proclaim his wrath awfully against you? doth not Gods Providence raise up evil, and fearful judgments against you? are there not those infirmities and sicknesses, which are the presage of death upon you? these all have a voice in them.
2. Consider the Ax lies at your root. God hath brought it thither; are there none of the fore-runners of your ruine come upon you? are there no spiritual beginnings towards it? doth not the spirit of God begin to withdraw his strivings in the means of grace? do you not find your selves more careless and secure under, and more impenetrable by the Word of God which is dispensed to you 〈…〉 are you not more delighted with, and more violently set in your hearts to live still in your sinful courses? are there no temporal fore-runners of this? do not Gods Servants proclaim his wrath awfully against you? doth not Gods Providence raise up evil, and fearful judgments against you? are there not those infirmities and sicknesses, which are the presage of death upon you? these all have a voice in them.
2. Think now what a terrible thing it is to be cut down for your barrenness, Do not make a mock at destruction, but be afraid of excision; consider therefore.