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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.
First, As touching the Sense of the Text; when we are counselled to keep the Unity of the Spirit, we are not to understand the Spirit of God, as personally so considered; because the Spirit of God in that sense, is not capable of being divided; and so there would be no need for us to endeavour to keep the Unity of it.
First, As touching the Sense of the Text; when we are counselled to keep the Unity of the Spirit, we are not to understand the Spirit of God, as personally so considered; because the Spirit of God in that sense, is not capable of being divided; and so there would be no need for us to endeavor to keep the Unity of it.
By the Unity of the Spirit then, we are to understand, that Unity of Mind which the Spirit of God calls for, and requires Christians to endeavour after; hence it is that we are exhorted, by one Spirit, with one Mind, to strive together for the Faith of the Gospel, Phil. 1. 27.
By the Unity of the Spirit then, we are to understand, that Unity of Mind which the Spirit of God calls for, and requires Christians to endeavor after; hence it is that we are exhorted, by one Spirit, with one Mind, to strive together for the Faith of the Gospel, Phil. 1. 27.
But farther; the Apostle in these words alludes to the state and composition of a Natural Body, and doth thereby inform us, that the Mystical Body of Christ holds an Analogy with the Natural Body of a Man: As first, In the Natural Body there must be a Spirit to animate it, for the Body without the Spirit is dead,