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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. The Issue which he joins with his Lord in upon a double Hypothesis, verse 9. of which afterwards.
3. The Issue which he joyns with his Lord in upon a double Hypothesis, verse 9. of which afterwards.
1. Let us observe the thing which he petitions for, Let it alone this year also. Where consider.
1. The mercy it self which he pleads for; Let it alone: the word signifies, to remit: and is often used for the pardoning of sin; but it here intends, a suspending of the sentence past; and the meaning is, do not cut it down, but let it still stand in the vineyard: and enjoy the benefit of it.
1. The mercy it self which he pleads for; Let it alone: the word signifies, to remit: and is often used for the pardoning of sin; but it here intends, a suspending of the sentence past; and the meaning is, do not cut it down, but let it still stand in the vineyard: and injoy the benefit of it.