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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.
DOCTRINE. If after all patience and pains used with them, Barren Souls become fruitful, all shall be well.
Though they have been long in Gods Vineyard, under the dispensation of Gospel means, and enjoyed all manner of endeavours that have been used with them, have worn out the greatest part of a day of grace, and withstood thousands of calls and counsels, doing God no service all this while, but dishonouring him; have cumbered the ground, provoked God to anger against them, & stirred him up to proceed to threaten them with eating down: if yet at the last it repents them, and they loath themselves for their sin, and return to him again with all their heart, and with all their soul, all shall still be well at the last.
Though they have been long in Gods Vineyard, under the dispensation of Gospel means, and enjoyed all manner of endeavours that have been used with them, have worn out the greatest part of a day of grace, and withstood thousands of calls and counsels, doing God no service all this while, but dishonouring him; have cumbred the ground, provoked God to anger against them, & stirred him up to proceed to threaten them with e•tting down: if yet at the last it repents them, and they loath themselves for their sin, and return to him again with all their heart, and with all their soul, all shall still be well at the last.
There are three respects in which the Truth of the Doctrine doth discover it self; ⟨p. 263⟩