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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.
AN EXHORTATION TO PEACE and UNITY.
Ephes. 4. 3. Endeavouring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace.
Ephes. 4. 3. Indeavouring to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace.
Beloved, Religion is the great Bond of humane Society; and it were well if it self were kept within the Bond of Unity; and that it may so be, let us, according to the Text, use our utmost endeavours to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace.
BEloved, Religion is the great Bond of humane Society; and it were well if it self were kept within the Bond of Unity; and that it may so be, let us, according to the Text, use our utmost endeavors to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace.
These words contain a Counsel and a Caution: the Counsel is, That we endeavour the Unity of the Spirit; the Caution is, That we do it in the Bond of Peace: as if he should say, I would have you live in Unity, but yet I would have you to be careful, that you do not purchase Unity with the breach of Charity.