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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.
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.
2. The limitation of this request, This Year; i.e. one season more; he is modest in his request, and yet he would fain have one trial more be made of it.
3. An argument insinuated in the word, also. q. d. thou hast had much patience towards it already, and it is but a little that I ask; it is but one trial more, and that cannot be so much as thou hast made already. To Wave all particular observations that might here be made, we may from the whole gather this,