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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.
10. His digging about it, and dunging of it, is to show his willingness to apply Gospel-helps to this barren Professor, if happily he may be fruitful.
10. His digging about it, and dunging of it, is to shew his willingness to apply Gospel-helps to this barren Professor, if happily he may be fruitful.
11. The Supposition that the Fig-tree may yet continue fruitless, is to show, that when Christ Jesus hath done all, There are some Professors will abide barren and fruitless.
11. The Supposition that the Fig-tree may yet continue fruitless, is to shew, that when Christ Jesus hath done all, There are some Professors will abide barren and fruitless.
12. The Determination upon this Supposition, at last to cut it down, is a certain prediction of such Professors unavoidable and eternal Damnation.
But to take this Parable into pieces, and to discourse more particularly, tho with all brevity, upon all the parts thereof.