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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.
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, James 2. 26. So it is in the Mystical Body of Christ; the Apostle no sooner tells us of that one Body, but he minds us of that one Spirit, Eph. 4. 4.
Secondly, The Body hath Joints and ⟨p. 4⟩Bands to unite all the parts; so hath the Mystical Body of Christ, Col. 2. 19. This is that Bond of Peace mentioned in the Text, as also in the 16th Verse of the same Chapter, where the whole Body is said to be fitly joined together, and compacted, by that which every Joint supplieth.