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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.
But to give you, in a few Particulars, the manner of this Man's dying.
1. Now he hath his fruitless Fruits beleaguer him round his Bed, together with all the Bands and Legions of his other wickedness. His own Iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden in the Cords of his Sins, Prov. 5. 22.
2. Now some terrible discovery of God is made out unto him, to the perplexing and terrifying of his guilty Conscience, God shall cast upon him, and not spare; and he shall be afraid of that which is high, Job. 27. 22.
3. The dark Entry he is to go through, will be a sore amazement to him; For fear shall be in the way, Eccl. 12. 5. yea Terrors will take hold on him, when he shall see the yawning Jaws of Death to gape upon him, and the Doors of the Shadow of Death open to give him passage out of the World. Now who will meet me in this dark Entry; how shall I pass through this dark Entry into another World!