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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.
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1. That God is to be acknowledged in all the benefits which his Church partakes in. All that they are or have more or better than the World, they owe it to him. His Vineyard lay open till he fenced it off, and had done so still, if he had not done it: are any place or people made to enjoy the Gospel and means of Grace? they are of Gods providing and bestowing; and that these are preserved to them in despite of all the malice of Satan, and rage of ungodly men, is because God is concerned for and looks after this Vineyard of his […] yea, that there is a visible Church at this day in the World, and it is not long ago extinct, no thank to the enemy, nor to the people of God themselves, but to him; they may sing after the Psalmist, Psal. 124. begin. Had not the Lord been on our side, &c. nor is it any deserving of theirs, who have often provoked him to lay them open; but only because they are his, and it hath pleased him to make them his people, 1 Sam. 12. 22.
1. That God is to be acknowledged in all the benefits which his Church partakes in. All that they are or have more or better than the World, they owe it to him. His Vineyard lay open till he fenced it off, and had done so still, if he had not done it: are any place or people made to enjoy the Gospel and means of Grace? they are of Gods providing and bestowing; and that these are preserved to them in despight of all the malice of Satan, and rage of ungodly men, is because God is concerned for and looks after this Vineyard of his yea, that there is a visible Church at this day in the World, and it is not long ago extinct, no thank to the enemy, nor to the people of God themselves, but to him; they may sing after the Psalmist,