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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.
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⟩themselves in courses of Sin, by promising themselves that they shall have Life and Salvation notwithstanding. Barren Professor, hearken to this. This Man is called, (Deut. 29. 18.) A Root that beareth Gall and Wormwood, or a poisonful Herb, such an one as is abominated of God; yea the abhorred of his Soul. For this Man saith, v. 19, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination or stubbornness of my Heart, to add drunkenness to thirst; an opinion flat against the whole Word of God, yea against the very Nature of God himself. Wherefore he adds, Deut. 19. 20. Then the Anger of the Lord, and his jealousy shall smoke against that Man; and all the Curses that are written in God's Book shall lie upon him, and God shall blot out his Name from under Heaven.
A Fourth Sign that such a Professor is quite past Grace, is, when he fortifies his hard Heart against the tenour of God's Word,