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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 Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfall of the fruitless Professor.
The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfal of the fruitless Professor.
Luke 13. 6, 7, 8, 9. A certain Man had a Fig-tree planted in his Vineyard, and he came and sought Fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he to the Dresser of his Vineyard, Behold, these three Years I come seeking Fruit on this Fig-tree, and find none: cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering, said, Lord, let it alone this Year also, until I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear Fruit, well: and if not, ⟨p. 2⟩then after that thou shalt cut it down.
AT the beginning of this Chapter we read, how some of the Jews came to Jesus Christ, to tell him of the cruelty of Pontius Pilate, in mingling the Blood of the Galileans with their Sacrifices. An heathenish and prodigious Act: for therein he showed, not only his Malice against the Jewish Nation, but also against their Worship, and consequently their God. An Action, I say, not only Heathenish, but prodigious also; for the Lord Jesus paraphrasing upon this Fact of his, teacheth the Jews, that without Repentance, they should all Likewise perish. Likewise, that is, by the Hand and Rage of the Roman Empire: Neither should they be more able to avoid the Stroke, than were those eighteen upon whom the Tower of Siloam fell, and slew them, Luke 19. 42, 43, 44. The fulfilling of which Prophecy, for their hardness of Heart, and Impenitency, was in the days of Titus Son of Vespasian, about forty Years after the Death of Christ. Then, I say, were these Jews, and their City both, environed