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

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Dedication: To the Reader.

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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A Cumber-ground Professor, is not only a provocation to God, a stumbling-block to the World, and a blemish to Religion, but a snare to his own Soul also. Though his Excellency mount up to the Heavens, and ⟨image 3⟩his Head reach unto the Clouds, yet he shall perish for ever, like his own dung, they that have seen him, shall say, Where is he? Job 20. 6.

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Now they count it pleasure to riot in the day-time, 2 Pet. 2. 13, 14. but what will they do when the Axe is fetched out?

Now they count it pleasure to riot in the day-time, 2 Pet. 2. 13, 14. but what will they do when the Ax is fetcht out?

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The Tree whose Fruit withereth, is reckoned a Tree without Fruit, a Tree twice dead, one that must be plucked up by the Roots, Jude 12.

The Tree whose Fruit withereth, is reckoned a Tree without Fruit, a Tree twice dead, one that must be pluck'd up by the Roots, Jude 12.

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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…

The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfall of the fruitless Professor.

The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfal of the fruitless Professor.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfall of the fruitless Professor.

The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfal of the fruitless Professor.

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