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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.
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, 2 Pet. 2. 21. And yet if they had not, they had been damned; but it is better to go to Hell without, than in, or from under a Profession: These shall receive greater Damnation, Luke 20. 47.
If thou be a Professor, read and tremble; If thou be Profane, do so likewise. For if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the Ungodly and Sinners appear? Cumber-ground, Take heed of the Axe; Barren Fig-tree, beware of the Fire.
If thou be a Professor, read and tremble; If thou be Profane, do so likewise. For if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the Ungodly and Sinners appear? Cumber-ground, Take heed of the Ax; Barren Fig-tree, beware of the Fire.
But I will keep thee no longer out of the Book; Christ Jesus, the Dresser ⟨image 4⟩of the Vine-yard, take care of thee, dig about thee, and dung thee, that thou mayest bear Fruit: That when the Lord of the Vineyard cometh with his Axe to seek for Fruit, or pronounce the Sentence of Damnation on the Barren Fig-tree, thou mayest escape that judgment. The Cumber-ground must to the Wood-pile, and thence to the Fire.
But I will keep thee no longer out of the Book; Christ Jesus, the Dresser