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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
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2. They are also in some measure acquainted with their own sinful infirmities and Temptations. God is pleased to manage his treaty with sinners about the things which concern their peace, by men of like infirmities with themselves; and he is wont to make such as he sends upon this errand to apprehend it deeply: which apprehension hath been wont to make them many times too backward in accepting the Commission, as judging themselves insufficient for so weighty an undertaking, and therefore we have that of Moses, Exod. 4. 13. Oh my Lord, send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send: q. d. any rather than me; and of Isaiah, chap 6. 5. I am a man of unclean lips; of Jeremiah, chap. 1• 5. I cannot speak, for I am a child; of Paul, 2 Cor. 2. 16. who is sufficient for these things? they feel so much of a dead and insensible frame in themselves, so much want of a tender and compassionate pity for souls, so many discouragements ready to prevail over them, to make them omit their duty, or be deficient in it, which renders them apt to be jealous of themselves, and suspicious least they should give God just provocation against them,
2. They are also in some measure acquainted with their own sinful infirmities and Temptations. God is pleased to manage his treaty with sinners about the things which concern their peace, by men of like infirmities with themselves; and he is wont to make such as he sends upon this errand to apprehend it deeply: which apprehension hath been wont to make them many times too backward in accepting the Cmomission, as judging themselves insufficient for so weighty an undertaking, and therefore we have that of Moses, Exod. 4. 13. Oh my Lord, send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send: q. d. any rather than me; and of Isaiah, chap 6. 5. I am a man of unclean lips; of Jeremiah, chap. 1