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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.
USE I.
For Information in three particulars;
1. This Doctrine certifies us that gracious souls will be satisfied in the Judgments which God will execute upon impenitent sinners: There will be so much of equity in Gods proceedings against them, so much inexcusableness in them, who have had so great patience, and so many endeavours afforded unto them, that they will have nothing at all to object against it: and indeed though it cannot but grieve the souls of Gods children at present, to see how wilfully unreclaimable sinners die, yet they cannot but justify God in his righteous Judgments upon them. The vine-dresser cannot but say, his Lord may well cut down such a fig-tree, as no means will make ⟨p. 292⟩to bear fruit. How much more then shall they for ever acquiesce in the final doom that shall be past in the great day, when their grace shall be perfect, and Gods Righteousness shall be openly declared? and it ought to be an awful consideration for sinners to think of, that if you now will die, you shall have no pity then, but all the Redeemed of Christ will, in that day, Rejoice in the Judgment.
1. This Doctrine certifies us that gracious souls will be satisfied in the Judgments which God will execute upon impenitent sinners: There will be so much of equity in Gods proceedings against them, so much inexcusableness in them, who have had so great patience, and so many endeavours afforded unto them, that they will have nothing at all to object against it: and indeed though it cannot but grieve the souls of Gods children at present, to see how wilfully unreclaimable sinners dy, yet they cannot but justifie God in his righteous Judgments upon them. The vine-dresser cannot but say, his Lord may well cut down such a fig-tree, as no means will make