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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.
In this Petition there are Six things considerable;
First, That Justice might be deferred, O that Justice might be deferred. Lord •et it alone, &c. a while longer.
Secondly, Here is time prefixed, as a space to try if more means will cure a barren Fig-tree. Lord let it alone this Year also.
Secondly, Here is time prefixed, as a space to try if more means will cure a bar•en Fig-tree. Lord let it alone this Year also.
Thirdly, The means to help it, are propounded, until I shall dig about it, and dung it.
Fourthly, Here is also an insinuation of a Supposition, that by thus doing, God's expectation may be answered, And if it bear Fruit, Well.