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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.
4. By the Dresser, the Lord Jesus.
5. By the Fig-tree's barrenness, the Professor's fruitlessness.
5. By the Fig-tree's barrenness, the Professor's fruitlesness.
6. By the three Years, the Patience of God, that for a time he extendeth to barren Professors.
7. This calling to the Dresser of the Vineyard to cut it down, is to show, the outcries of Justice against fruitless Professors.
7. This calling to the Dresser of the Vineyard to cut it down, is to shew, the outcries of Justice against fruitless Professors.
8. The Dresser's interceding, is to show, how the Lord Jesus steps in, and takes hold of the Head of his Father's Axe, to stop, or at least to defer present execution a barren Fig-tree.