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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.
1. That there is all reason that God should have the sovereign disposal of his won gifts. That he be acknowledged to be supreme, and arbitrary in his dispensing of himself to the children of men, must needs be his indisputable prerogative, who shall find fault with him for doing with his own what he will? if •e should have left all the whole race of man kind in their natural estate, and bestowed his grace upon none of them, there would have been no ground for […] •ind fault with him, or lay any […] to his charge; for all were forfeited, and fallen into his hands, and liable to his revenge; if then he will give his special favours to some ⟨p. 249⟩and not to others, and that according to his own pleasure, without acquainting us with the reason of it, it concerns not us to dispute, or make any demur in our thoughts about it: the highest reason, and ultimate resolution of these things, which ought to set us down satisfied, is, what if God will, Rom. 9. 22.
1. That there is all reason that God should have the soveraign disposal of his won gifts. That he be acknowledged to be supream, and arbitrary in his dispensing of himself to the children of men, must needs be his indisputable prerogative, who shall find fault with him for doing with his own what he will? if •e should have left all the whole race of man kind in their natural estate, and bestowed his grace upon none of them, there would have been no ground for 〈…〉 •ind fault with him, or lay any 〈…〉 to his charge; for all were forfeited, and fallen into his hands, and lyable to his revenge; if then he will give his special favours to some ⟨p. 249⟩and not to others, and that according to his own pleasure, without acquainting us with the reason of it, it concerns not us to dispute, or make any demurr in our thoughts about it: the highest reason, and ultimate resolution of these things, which ought to set us down satisfied, is, what if God will,