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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.
2. It is the greatest kind of Hardness, and hence they are said to be Harder than a Rock, Jer. 5. 3. or than an Adamant, Zec. 7. 13. that is, harder than Flint. So hard that nothing can enter.
3. It is an Hardness given in much anger, and that to bind the Soul up in an impossibility of Repentance.
4. It is an Hardness therefore which is incurable, of which a Man must die and be damned. Barren Professor, hearken to this.
A Fourth Sign that such a Professor is quite past Grace, is, when he fortifies his hard Heart against the tenor of God's Word, Job 9. 4, &c. This is called hardening themselves against God, and turning of the Spirit against him. As thus, When after a Profession of Faith in the Lord Jesus, and of the Doctrine that is according to Godliness, they shall embolden ⟨p. 108⟩