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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.
Yea, that Man shall not fail to be effectually destroyed, saith the Text, 21. vers. The Lord shall separate that Man unto evil, out of all the Tribes of Israel, according to all the Curses of the Covenant.
He shall separate him unto Evil; He shall give him up, he shall leave him to his Heart; he shall separate him to that, ⟨p. 109⟩or those that will assuredly be too hard for him.
Now this Judgment is much effected, when God hath given a Man up unto Satan, and hath given Satan leave, without fail, to complete his destruction. I say, When God hath given Satan leave effectually to complete his destruction: For all that are delivered up unto Satan, have not, nor do not come to this End. But that is the Man, whom God shall separate to Evil, and shall leave in the Hands of Satan, to complete, without fall, his Destruction.
Now this Judgment is much effected, when God hath given a Man up unto Satan, and hath given Satan leave, without fail, to compleat his destruction. I say, When God hath given Satan leave effectually to compleat his destruction: For all that are delivered up unto Satan, have not, nor do not come to this End. But that is the Man, whom God shall separate to Evil, and shall leave in the Hands of Satan, to compleat, without fall, his Destruction.