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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.
2. Resolve a doubt which is apt to be raised on this consideration.
1. In the enquiry into the grounds of the evidence of this Truth, we may take up with these conclusions.
1. That God knows who are appointed to obtain grace and salvation. We are not therefore to charge this uncertainty upon him, though men be at a loss, yet he is at ⟨p. 243⟩none: this the Apostle vindicates, 2 Tim. ••. 19. The Lord knows who are his. He not only knows them in the gross, or number; but who they are personally and individually; not only how many they are, but what are their names, and in particular: he is a chosen vessel, Acts 9. 15. and this must needs be, because his free Election is the first link in the Chain, whereof eternal glory is the last, Rom 8.29, 30. when therefore it was a time of the greatest obduration upon the Nation of the Jews, Paul satisfies himself in this, Rom. 11. 7. The Election hath obtained it; so that in this respect, here is the greatest certainty that can be, because Gods purposes are Unchangeable.