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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
Sermon 2 › Doctrine 2: DOCTRINE II. ALL visible Professors are Fig-trees planted in Gods Vineyard.
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DOCTRINE II. ALL visible Professors are Fig-trees planted in Gods Vineyard.
That Christ designs a particular person in our Text, hath been already observed; and that it is one that is planted in the Vineyard, is in so many words expressed. That a true Convert, or one that is effectually and savingly called, cannot be only intended, the whole frame of the Parable confirms. That it cannot be applicable to any one of the Children of Men in general without limitation, appears because the Heathen World are ⟨p. 20⟩without the pale, and are reckoned in the Scripture, to be in the Wilderness, and afar off: whereas this must needs denominate some Relation to the Church of God; which can be none but that of visible Professors.
By these I understand all such as have by an open act of their own, acknowledged Christ and his ways, and yielded themselves •o his Government in his Church; together with their Children: for God always took parents into the Covenant together with their posterity, as the Scripture fully confirms. Here we may enquire,