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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.
5. Nay this fruitfulness is a declaration of God's everlasting love to him. It is an evidence that God hath chosen him in Christ before the foundation of the world. Electing love is he first grace, on which all the rest de••nd: the sinner cannot remove his own barrenness, or impower himself to serve God; if ever he be made fruitful, it is God […] do it in him: he only can take away […] natural unprofitableness of his, and in […] the principle of a new life into him, the […] birth is the spirits work; the man is •old under spiritual death till he comes […] breathes life into him: and this is done according unto his pleasure; he shows this mercy to whom he will; and the only motive ••ch he hath before him to do it in time, •s because he purposed it from eternity: Now therefore the secret of God breaks into light; and though before none knew of it, and the•sinner might seem to be without hope; now he comes to know that God had appointed him to be an heir of eternal life before the world was: his condition it therefore as lafe as Unchangeable Love can make it.
5. Nay this fruitfulness is a declaration of Gos everlasting love to him. It is an evidence that God hath chosen him in Christ before the foundation of the world. Electing love is he first grace, on which all the rest de••nd: the sinner cannot remove his own barrenness, or impower himself to serve God; if ever he be made fruitful, it is God 〈…〉 do it in him: he only can take away 〈…〉 natural unprofitableness of his, and in 〈…〉 the principle of a new life into him, the 〈…〉 birth is the spirits work; the man is •old under spiritual death till he comes 〈…〉 breathes life into him: and this is done according unto his pleasure; he shews this mercy to whom he will; and the only motive ••ch he hath before him to do it in time, •s because he purposed it from eternity: Now therefore the secret of God breaks into light; and though before none knew of it, and thesinner might seem to be without hope; now he comes to know that God had appointed him to be an heir of eternal life before the world was: his condition it therefore as lafe as Unchangeable Love can make it.