I have waited, saith God, these three years; I have missed of fruit these three years; it hath been a cumber-ground these three years; cut it down. ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)
"It is a cumber-ground," saith the Father; "One year longer," prays the Son: ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)
When God comes the next year, he finds him still as he was, a barren, fruitless cumber-ground. ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)
And they contain a petition presented to an offended justice, praying, that a little more time and patience might be exercised towards the barren cumber-ground fig-tree. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
The woman that delighteth in her garden, if she have a slip there, suppose, if it was fruitful, she would not take five pounds for it; yet if it bear no fruit, if it wither, and dwindle, and die, and turn cumber-ground only, it may not stand in her garden. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
Of what complexion thou art I cannot certainly divine; but the parable tells thee that the cumber-ground must be cut down. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
Ghost doth not only take an argument from its barrenness, but because it is a cumber-ground, therefore cut it down; wherefore it must needs be a provocation. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
The cumber-ground must to the wood-pile, and thence to the fire. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
Thou hast been a cumber-ground [104] long already, and wilt thou continue so still? ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
God comes the next year, he finds him still as he was, a barren, fruitless cumber-ground. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
A cumber-ground professor is not only a provocation to God, ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
A cumber-ground is a very mock and reproach of religion, a mock and reproach to the ways of God, to the people of God, to the ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
The cumber-ground is a sucker; he draws away the heart and nourishment from the other trees. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
At last it is cut down as a cumber-ground and burnt. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
'Thou hast been a cumber-ground long already, and wilt thou continue so still? ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
O thou cumber-ground, God expects fruit, God will come seeking fruit shortly. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
It is a most valuable tree -- capable of bearing much fruit; still, after every trial, if it remains barren, it must be cut down as a cumber-ground, and sent to the fire. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
The church, and a profession, are the best of places for the upright, but the worst in the world for the cumber-ground. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
It is a cumber-ground, saith the Father; one year longer, prays the Son. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
