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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 II.
Let it be for a word of solemn warning to all such. All you that abide in your sins, notwithstanding God hath given you such fair opportunities, and such awakenings calls to Repentance: you have been spared at this ⟨p. 294⟩time, and at that time, and you promise your selves that it shall ever be so: but let me have leave to enter this caution; be assured that there will a time come, when you shall not be spared any more; cutting down is like to be the end of all such as you are• God is not slack, as men count slackness, he is willing that you should repent and escape his fury; but he knows that he can cut you down when he will; and if you will in no other way glorify him, it will unavoidably come to this at the last: and if you are resolved in your way, and if you will not be persuaded to take the warning, and accept the counsel given you, let me only entreat you to remember it one day that you have been seriously and solemnly told of it before-hand, but you would not lay it to heart.
Let it be for a word of solemn warning to all such. All you that abide in your sins, notwithstanding God hath given you such sair opportunities, and such awakenings calls to Repentance: you have been spared at this ⟨p. 294⟩time, and at that time, and you promise your selves that it shall ever be so: but let me have leave to enter this caution; be assured that there will a time come, when you shall not be spared any more; cutting down is like to be the end of all such as you are God is not slack, as men count slackness, he is willing that you should repent and escape his fury; but he knows that he can cut you down when he will; and if you will in no other way glorifie him, it will unavoidably come to this at the last: and if you are resolved in your way, and if you will not be perswaded to take the warning, and accept the counsel given you, let me only entreat you to remember it one day that you have been seriously and solemnly told of it before-hand, but you would not lay it to heart.