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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 sinners continue unfruitful after utmost endeavours used with them, they shall perish without remedy, without pity.
Though if they bear fruit at the last, they shall be spared, yet if finally they will not be brought unto it, but remain in their natural barrenness, they must perish in the end: though God hath spared them once and again as being loth that they should die, yet he will then spare them no more.
Though if they bear fruit at the last, they shall be spared, yet if finally they will not be brought unto it, but remain in their natural barrenness, they must perish in the end: though God hath spared them once and again as being loth that they should dy, yet he will then spare them no more.
There are three things intimated, as contained in the Doctrine.
1. That God will certainly bring destruction upon them in the end. There shall be no escaping for them: all the patience with which he hath waited upon them, and good will which he hath shown unto them, loving and kind entreaties which he hath urged upon them, will not secure them from his wrath, or be any evidence to them that he will save and not destroy them: sinners are ready to say so; but God would have them to know and be assured of the contrary, Psal 50. , 22.