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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.
Had a Fig tree, had one without a Wedding-garment, had a thief in his Garden, at his Wedding, in his House. ⟨p. 15⟩These climbed up Some other way. There are many ways to get into the Church of God, and Profession of his Name, besides, and without an entering by the door.
Had a Fig tree, had one without a Wedding-garment, had a thief in his Garden, at his Wedding, in his House. ⟨p. 15⟩These climbed up Some other way. There are many ways to get into the Church of God, and Profession of his Name, besides, and without an entring by the door.
1. There is the way of lying and dissembling, and at this gap the Gibeonites got in; Josh. 9. 3, 4, &c.
2. There is sometimes falseness amongst some Pastors, either for the sake of carnal Relations, or the like; at this hole, Tobiah the enemy of God got in; Nehem. 13. 4, 5, 6.
2. There is sometimes falsness amongst some Pastors, either for the sake of carnal Relations, or the like; at this hole, Tobiah the enemy of God got in; Nehem. 13. 4, 5, 6.