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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
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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.
POSTSCRIPT.
Reader, I thought good to advertise thee, that I have delivered this to thy Hand, in the same Order and Method in which it was preached, and almost in the same words, without any diminishings, or considerable Enlargings, unless it be in the thirteen last Particulars; upon some of which I have made some enlargements, which I could not then do for want of time; but the substance of every one of them was then laid down in the same particular order as here thou hast them; and now I have done, I make no other account (to use the words of a moderate Man upon the like Occasion) but it will fall out with me, as doth commonly with him that parts a Fray, both Parties may perhaps drive at me for wishing them no worse than peace: My ambition of the public Tranquillity of the ⟨p. 64⟩Church of God, I hope […] through these hazards, let […] me, so their Quarrels may cease• […] shall rejoice in those Blows and Scars I shall take for the Church's Safety.
REader, I thought good to advertise thee, that I have delivered this to thy Hand, in the same Order and Method in which it was preached, and almost in the same words, without any diminishings, or considerable Enlargings, unless it be in the thirteen last Particulars; upon some of which I have made some enlargements, which I could not then do for want of time; but the substance of every one of them was then laid down in the same particular order as here thou hast them; and now I have done, I make no other account (to use the words of a moderate Man upon the like Occasion) but it will fall out with me, as doth commonly with him that parts a Fray, both Parties may perhaps drive at me for wishing them no worse than peace: My ambition of the publique Tranquillity of the ⟨p. 64⟩Church of God, I hope 〈…〉 through these hazards, let 〈…〉 me, so their Quarrels may cease shall rejoyce in those Blows and Scars I shall take for the Church's Safety.