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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.
This hindered the Prayers and Fastings of the People of old from finding acceptance, Isa. 58. 3. The People ask the Reason wherefore they: fasted, and God did not see nor take notice of them? He gives this Reason, because they fasted for Strife and Debate, and hid their Face from their own F•esh. Again, Isa. 59. the Lord saith, His Hand was not shortened, that he could not save; nor his Ear heavy that he could not hear: but their Sins had separated between their God and them. And among those many Sins they stood chargeable with, this was none of the least, (viz.) that the way of Peace they had not known. You see where Peace was wanting, Prayers were hindered, both under the Old and New Testament.
This hindred the Prayers and Fastings of the People of old from finding acceptance, Isa. 58. 3. The People ask the Reason wherefore they: fasted, and God did not see nor take notice of them? He gives this Reason, because they fasted for Strife and Debate, and hid their Face from their own F•esh. Again, Isa. 59. the Lord saith, His Hand was not shortned, that he could not save; nor his Ear heavy that he could not hear: but their Sins had separated between their God and them. And among those many Sins they stood chargeable with, this was none of the least, (viz.) that the way of Peace they had not known. You see where Peace was wanting, Prayers were hindred, both under the Old and New Testament.
The Sacrifice of the People in the 65th of Isaiah, that said▪ Stand farther off, I am holier than thou, was as Smoke in the Nostrils of the Lord. On the other hand we read how acceptable those ⟨p. 43⟩