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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.
USE. III.
For Exhortation to sinners; such as have had more observable sparing mercies afforded unto them: you have been brought low by your iniquity; God hath laid his hand heavy upon you; you were under a sentence of death in, your own apprehension, and the terrors of it made you afraid; you then reflected, and remembered how unprofitably you had lived, & how woefully you had despised all the means of Grace: then you earnestly called for prayers, and made a great many solemn promises; and God hath heard prayers for you, and granted you the desire of your souls and you are now escaped, and returned to his house again. Let the truth in hand urge these three lessons upon you, and put them in practice.
For Exhortation to sinners; such as have had more observable sparing mercies afforded unto them: you have been brought low by your iniquity; God hath laid his hand heavy upon you; you were under a sentence of death in, your own apprehension, and the terrors of it made you afraid; you then reflected, and remembred how unprofitably you had lived, & how wofully you had despised all the means of Grace: then you earnestly called for prayers, and made a great many solemn promises; and God hath heard prayers for you, and granted you the desire of your souls and you are now escaped, and returned to his house again. Let the truth in hand urge these three lessons upon you, and put them in practice.