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…

Name: The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor showing…
Author: John Bunyan

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.

John Bunyan 1628–1688London: printed for J. Robinson, 1688

[4], 118, 64 p. · 36k words · Wing B5485 · ESTC R29145

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The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfall of the fruitless Prof… › And if it bear Fruit, well.]The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfal of the fruitless Prof… › And if it bear Fruit, well.]

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.

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:205p. 70

And if it bear Fruit, well.]

:206p. 70

And if the Fruit of all my Labour doth make this Fig-tree fruitful, I shall count my Time, my Labour and Means well bestowed upon it; And thou also, O my God, shalt be therewith much delighted: For thou art gracious, and merciful, and repentest thee of the Evil which thou threatenest to bring upon a People.

:207p. 70–71

These words therefore inform us, that if a barren Fig-tree, a barren Professor, shall now at last bring forth Fruit to God, it shall go well with that Professor, it shall go well with that poor Soul. His former Barrenness, his former tempting of God, his abuse of God's Patience, and long-Suffering; his •••spending Year after Year, shall now be all forgiven him. Yea, God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ will now pass by, and forget all, and say, Well done, at the last. When I say to the Wicked, O wicked Man, thou shalt surely die; if he then do that which is lawful and right, if he walk in the Statutes of Life, without committing Iniquity, he ⟨p. 71⟩

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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…

And if it bear Fruit, well.]

And if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.]

And if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.]

After that, thou shalt cut it down.]

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

And if it bear Fruit, well.]

And if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.]

And if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.]

After that, thou shalt cut it down.]

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