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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. That there are fearful threatenings out against the finally impenitent. The truth is, all the terrible menaces of the Word of God are most properly belonging to such as these. It is not this or that sin in it self, that holds the sinner bound under the curse; for, let it have been what it will, of what sort or degree soever, yet if men do truly repent of it, that will turn away the wrath of God, and take off the threatening from ⟨p. 286⟩them: but it is impenitency added to […] that continues a man under the curse, and p•••••rance in it, that makes his case to be •em•••less. When God sent his Prophets […] the most fearful denunciations of wrath, they were still to add invitations to repentance, and make encouraging promises of mercy in case they did prevail: but they were withal to assure them, that if they did not return those Judgments should take place upon them without avoidance; Isa. 1. 19, 29. Psal. 7. 10, 11. This is it which makes iniquity to be their ruin. If they had hearkened to the voice of God, believed his word, and obeyed his counsels, he would have turned his hand upon their enemies, and saved them; but because they would not so do, therefore did his wrath fall upon them.
3. That there are fearful threatnings out against the finally impenitent. The truth is, all the terrible menaces of the Word of God are most properly belonging to such as these. It is not this or that sin in it self, that holds the sinner bound under the curse; for, let it have been what it will, of what sort or degree soever, yet if men do truly repent of it, that will turn away the wrath of God, and take off the threatning from ⟨p. 286⟩them: but it is impenitency added to 〈…〉 that continues a man under the curse, and p•••••rance in it, that makes his case to be •emless. When God sent his Prophets the most fearful denunciations of wrath, they were still to add invitations to repentance, and make encouraging promises of mercy in case they did prevail: but they were withal to assure them, that if they did not return those Judgments should take place upon them without avoidance;