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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.
DOCTRINE. Gods Servants request, and he sometimes mercifully grants a reprieve to barren Professors, after solemn threatenings; that they may have farther means used with them to render them fruitful.
DOCTRINE. Gods Servants request, and he sometimes mercifully grants a reprieve to barren Professors, after solemn threatnings; that they may have farther means used with them to render them fruitful.
It is true, there is only the int•cession it self expressed in the parable, but our Saviours design is to intimate, both that there was such a delay granted, and how it was obtained, and what was the motive for the one to ask, and the other to grant; and it is determined in this. There are two things whereof a distinct account may be here enquired after?
1. What influence this reason hath into the desires of Gods servants, to make them so earnest for a year longer?
2. On what account this argument & plea of theirs prevails with God?