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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.
3. Hence his estate is now safe. He is put into a state of life and salvation; he is past from death to life; God is atoned to him, and loves him, and accepts of him: he shall abide in the vineyard as long as God sees meet to use him for his service there, and then he shall be transplanted into the Kingdom of Glory: he is numbered among the Children and entitled to the inheritance, he may now say as the Prophet Isa. 12. 1. I will praise thee for thou wast angry with me, but thine anger is turned away. Now the evidence of this comfortable truth will appear in these things.
3. Hence his estate is now safe. He is put into a state of life and salvation; he is past from death to life; God is atoned to him, and loves him, and accepts of him: he shall abide in the vineyard as long as God sees meet to use him for his service there, and then he shall be transplanted into the Kingdom of Glory: he is numbred among the Children and entituled to the inheritance, he may now say as the Prophet Isa. 12. 1. I will praise thee for thou wast angry with me, but thine anger is turned away. Now the evidence of this comfortable truth will appear in these things.
1. The design of the whole day of grace, is to give sinners an opportunity to repent that they may be saved. That is it indeed that makes it a day of grace, because in it men have not only a space, but with it a call to return to God that they may live: it is to invite them to, and afford them the means for it, as long therefore as this day ⟨p. 265⟩lasts, God signifies hereby that he is reconcilable to sinners, that he delights not in their death, but had rather that they should turn and live: for which reason he calls upon them so to do: it is the day of their visitation, in which he holds our before them, the things of their peace, and therefore gives them offers that if they do accept of them, they shall have peace.