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… › And he came and sought Fruit thereon [and sound none].The Barren Fig-tree: OR, The Doom and Downfal of the fruitless Prof… › And he came and sought Fruit thereon [and sound none].

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:90p. 27–28

Secondly, They also bring forth untimely Fruit, that stay till the Season is over. God will have his Fruit in His ⟨p. 28⟩Season; I say, he will receive them of such Men as shall render them to him in Their Seasons, Matth. 21. 41. The missing of the season is dangerous, staying till the Door is shut is dangerous, Mat. 25. 10, 11. Many there be that come not till the Flood of God's Anger is raised, and too deep for them to wade through; Surely in the Floods of great Waters, they shall not come nigh unto him, Psal. 32. 6. Esau's [afterward] is fearful: For ye know how that afterward when he would have inherited the Blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of Repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears, Heb. 12. 16, 17.

:91p. 28–29

So the Children of Israel, they brought to God the Fruits of Obedience too late; their Lo, we be here, (Numb. 14. 40, 41, 42) came too late; Their, We will go up (vers. 21, 22, 23.) came too late. The Lord had sworn, Mat. 25. 10 . & 27. 3. before, that they should not possess the Land. All these are such as bring forth untimely Fruit, Heb. 12. 17. Luk. 13. 25, 26, 27. It is the hard hap of the Reprobate to do all things too late; to be sensible of his want of Grace too late; to be sorry for Sin too late; to seek Repentance

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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 found none.]

And he sought Fruit thereon.]

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And he came and sought Fruit thereon, and found none.]

And he sought Fruit thereon.]

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