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…

Name: The barren fig tree, or, The doom and downfall of the fruitless professor showing…
Author: John Bunyan

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.

John Bunyan 1628–1688London: printed for J. Robinson, 1688

[4], 118, 64 p. · 36k words · Wing B5485 · ESTC R29145

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The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfall of the fruitless Prof… › [Had] a Fig-tree planted in his Vineyard.The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfal of the fruitless Prof… › [Had] a Fig-tree planted in his Vineyard.

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.

[ Earlier:61–76 of 416

:61p. 15

1. There is the way of lying and dissembling, and at this gap the Gibeonites got in; Josh. 9. 3, 4, &c.

:62p. 15

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.

:63p. 15

3. There is sometimes negligence, and too much uncircumspectness in the whole Church, thus the Uncircumcised got in; Ezek. 44. 7, 9.

:64p. 15–16

4. Sometimes again, let the Church be never so circumspect, yet these have so much help from the Devil, that they beguile them all, and so get in. These are of that sort of Thieves that Paul complains of; false Brethren brought in unawares,

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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…

And [He] came and sought Fruit thereon.

And he came and sought Fruit [thereon].

And he came and sought Fruit thereon [and sound none].

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

And [He] came and sought Fruit thereon.

And he came and sought Fruit [thereon].

And he came and sought Fruit thereon [and sound none].

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