A30122:16
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.
O thou Cumber-ground, God expects Fruit, God will come seeking Fruit shortly.
My Exhortation therefore is to Professors, that they look to it, that they take heed.
The Barren Fig-tree in the Vineyard, and the Bramble in the Wood, are both prepared for the Fire.
Profession is not a Covert to hide from the Eye of God; nor will it palliate the revengeful Threatening of his Justice, he will command to cut it down shortly.
Profession is not a Covert to hide from the Eye of God; nor will it palliate the revengeful Threatning of his Justice, he will command to cut it down shortly.
The Church and a Profession, are the best of places for the Upright, but the worst in the World for the Cumber-ground: He must be cast, as profane, out of the Mount of God; Cast, I say, over the Wall of the Vineyard, there to wither; thence to be gathered and burned. It had been better for them that they had not known the Way of Righteousness,