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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.
2. There is a more special and eminent ⟨p. 269⟩degree of glory that redounds to God by this. When a sinner who hath so obstinately withstood all endeavours that have been used with him; hath been for so many years growing harder and harder, and by all this laying in so much provocation, through the multiplied affronts that he hath offered to God, shall at last be brought over to him, and become a plant of renown in his vineyard; here are more illustrious discoveries of his grace in this one: he is a most admirable monument of mercy. As the mighty power of God is manifested, in the turning of an heart that hath been so long glued to his Idols, so his unchangeable love is here commended: If any thing could have made him to alter his design, so much, and so long continued provocation would have done it; Paul therefore speaking of himself, who was brought in after he had so long set himself against Christ, speaks of it with admiration, I Tim. 1. 16.
2. There is a more special and eminent ⟨p. 269⟩degree of glory that redounds to God by this. When a sinner who hath so obstinately withstood all endeavours that have been used with him; hath been for so many years growing harder and harder, and by all this laying in so much provocation, through the multiplied affronts that he hath offered to God, shall at last be brought over to him, and become a plant of renown in his vineyard; here are more illustrious discoveries of his grace in this one: he is a most admirable monument of mercy. As the mighty power of God is manifested, in the turning of an heart that hath been so long glewed to his Idols, so his unchangeable love is here commended: If any thing could have made him to alter his design, so much, and so long continued provocation would have done it; Paul therefore speaking of himself, who was brought in after he had so long set himself against Christ, speaks of it with admiration, I Tim. 1. 16.