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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 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.
London: printed for J. Robinson, 1688
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
These three Years, &c.
He seeks for the Fruit of every Season: He will not that any of his Sermons, Ministers, Afflictions, Judgments, or Mercies should be lost, or stand for ⟨p. 46⟩insignificant things; he will have according to the benefit bestowed, 2 Chron. 32. 24, 25. Ezek. 14. 23. He hath not done without a Cause all that he hath done, and therefore he looketh for Fruit; Look to it, barren Fig-tree.
I came [seeking] Fruit.
Observ. This word [seeking] signifies a narrow search: for when a Man seeks for Fruit on a Tree, he goes round it, and round it, now looking into this Bough, and then into that, he peeks into the inmost Boughs, and the lowermost Boughs, if perhaps Fruit may be thereon.