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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 which God peculiarly designs by the Gospel, is the glory of his Grace. It is true, his justice is also greatly illustrated by it, in as much as sinners under it do aggravate their guilt, and bring the more fearful Judgments upon themselves: But the Gospel is properly a discovery of Christ in his great work of Redemption, and all this is for the riches of the glory of his grace, Eph. 1. 6. and where his grace is exalted, there God is greatly glorified, for he shall be praised in all his Saints, and his other perfections are magnified in and with this: his Justice in that way wherein he revealed his grace by Christ, and upon his satisfaction; his Holiness, in that he gets him an everlasting name and renown in this way, his power in that he is able to bring about this great salvation; his Wisdom in the contrivance of the way to accomplish it; hence therefore the whole treaty of the Gospel, that is held with Sinners, carries in it a demonstration of this Grace.
1. That which God peculiarly designs by the Gospel, is the glory of his Grace. It is true, his justice is also greatly illustrated by it, in as much as sinners under it do aggravate their guilt, and bring the more fearful Judgments upon themselves: But the Gospel is properly a discovery of Christ in his great work of Redemption, and all this is for the riches of the glory of his grace, Eph. 1. 6. and where his grace is exalted, there God is greatly glorified, for he shall be praised in all his Sai•ts, and his other perfections are magnified in and with this: his Justice in that way wherein he revealed his grace by Christ, and upon his satisfaction; his Holiness, in that he gets him an everlasting name and renown in this way, his power in that he is able to bring about this great salvation; his Wisdom in the contrivance of the way to accomplish it; hence therefore the whole treaty of the Gospel, that is held with Sinners, carries in it a demonstration of this Grace.