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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.
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.
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 joyned together, and compacted, by that which every Joynt supplieth.
Thirdly, The Natural Body receives Counsel and Nourishment from the Head; so doth the Mystical Body of Christ, he is their Counsellor, and him they must hear; he is their Head, and him they must hold; hence it is that the Apostle complaineth, Col. 2. 19. of some that did not hold the Head from which the whole Body by Joints and Bands hath Nourishment.
Thirdly, The Natural Body receives Counsel and Nourishment from the Head; so doth the Mystical Body of Christ, he is their Counsellor, and him they must hear; he is their Head, and him they must hold; hence it is that the Apostle complaineth, Col. 2. 19. of some that did not hold the Head from which the whole Body by Joynts and Bands hath Nourishment.