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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.
And he answering, said unto him, Lord, l• it alone this Year also, until I shall d• about it, and dung it; and if it be• Fruit, well; and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down, vers. 8, 9.
These are the words of the Dresser o• the Vineyard, who, I told you, […] Jesus Christ (for he made intercession fo• the Transgressors.) And they contain Petition, presented to an offended Justice, praying that a little more time, an• Patience might be exercised towards th• ⟨p. 63⟩barren, cumber-ground Fig-tree.
THese are the words of the Dresser o• the Vineyard, who, I told you, 〈…〉 Jesus Christ (for he made intercession fo• the Transgressors.) And they contain Petition, presented to an offended Justice, praying that a little more time, an• Patience might be exercised towards th• ⟨p. 63⟩barren, cumber-ground Fig-tree.
In this Petition there are Six things considerable;