The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor showing…The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor shewing…

Name: The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor showing…
Author: John Bunyan

The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor showing that the day of grace may be past with him long before his life is ended : the signs also by which such miserable mortals may be known / by John Bunyan ; to which is added his Exhortation to peace and unity among all that fear God.The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor shewing that the day of grace may be past with him long before his life is ended : the signs also by which such miserable mortals may be known / by John Bunyan ; to which is added his Exhortation to peace and unity among all that fear God.

John Bunyan 1628–1688London: printed for J. Robinson, 1688

[4], 118, 64 p. · 36k words · Wing B5485 · ESTC R29145

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The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfall of the fruitless Prof… › Behold, these three Years I come seeking Fruit, &c.The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfal of the fruitless Prof… › Behold, these three Years I come seeking Fruit, &c.

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.

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Behold, these three Years I come seeking Fruit, &c.

:128p. 44

Observ. These three Years. God cries out that his patience is abused, that his forbearance is abused: Behold, these three Years I have waited, forborne; these three Years I have deferred mine anger; Therefore will I stretch out mine hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting, Jer. 15. 6.

Observ. These three Years. God cries out that his patience is abused, that his forbearance is abused: Behold, these three Years I have waited, forborn; these three Years I have deferred mine anger; Therefore will I stretch out mine hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting, Jer. 15. 6.

:129p. 44

These three years. Observe, God layeth up all the time; I say, a remembrance of all the time, that a barren Fig-tree, or a fruitless Professor misspendeth in this World. As he saith also of Israel of old, Forty Years long was I grieved with this generation, Psal. 95. 10.

These three years. Observe, God layeth up all the time; I say, a remembrance of all the time, that a barren Fig-tree, or a fruitless Professor mispendeth in this World. As he saith also of Israel of old, Forty Years long was I grieved with this generation,

[ Earlier passages Later passages ]

The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor showing…The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor shewing…

Behold, these three Years I come seeking Fruit, &c.

These three Years, &c.

I came [seeking] Fruit.

Seeking Fruit on [this] Fig-tree.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

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Behold, these three Years I come seeking Fruit, &c.

These three Years, &c.

I came [seeking] Fruit.

Seeking Fruit on [this] Fig-tree.

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