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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. That the means of grace are nextly and directly appointed for the benefit of these. It was for the Redemption and Salvation of Sinners, that Jesus Christ came into the World; but for which he had never engaged in the work which he undertook: and to that end that his redeemed may be brought to participate in the good which he hath procured for them, the Gospel is promulgated, and the offers and invitations to accept of peace are made to sinners: and this is the reason why the Gospel is sent to this place, and not to that, because God hath some of his chosen ones here, whom he hath loved with an everlasting love, and whom he designs ⟨p. 244⟩to call by these means, into the grace where by they may be saved: nor can it be said that ever the Gospel was sent unto such a place, where there were none of that number dwelling; though possibly there have bin more of them in some places than in others: it is therefore called the Gospel of Salvation.
2. That the means of grace are nextly and directly appointed for the benefit of these. It was for the Redemption and Salvation of Sinners, that Jesus Christ came into the World; but for which he had never engaged in the work which he undertook: and to that end that his redeemed may be brought to participate in the good which he hath procused for them, the Gospel is promulgated, and the offers and invitations to accept of peace are made to sinners: and this is the reason why the Gospel is sent to this place, and not to that, because God hath some of his chosen ones here, whom he hath loved with an everlasting love, and whom he designs ⟨p. 244⟩to call by these means, into the grace where by they may be saved: nor can it be said that ever the Gospel was sent unto such a place, where there were none of that number dwelling; though possibly there have bin more of them in some places than in others: it is therefore called the Gospel of Salvation.