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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.
Verse 8. And be answering said unto him, […] it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it and dung it.
Verse 8. And be answering said unto him, 〈…〉 it alone this year also, till I shall digg about it and dung it.
[…] The Fourth and last part of the Parable comes now to be considered Viz: the interposition or intercession of the Vine dresser for this tree, in which be humbly sets himself to delay the execution of the sentence that had been past upon it, and accordingly pleads with his Lord for a little forbearance; we are not to think that man is more patient than God is, but it shows us what is mans duty and what use God is pleased to make of man in his providential dispensations. Here then observe.
〈…〉 THe Fourth and last part of the Parable comes now to be considered Viz: the interposition or intercession of the Vine dresser for this tree, in which be humbly sets himself to delay the execution of the sentence that had been past upon it, and accordingly pleads with his Lord for a little forbearance; we are not to think that man is more patient than God is, but it shews us what is mans duty and what use God is pleased to make of man in his providential dispensations. Here then observe.
1. The thing he petitions for, Let it alone this year also.