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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
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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.
Fourthly, The Natural Body cannot well subsist if either the Spirit be wounded, or the Joints broken or dislocated; the Body cannot bear a Wound or broken Spirit; A broken Spirit dryeth the Bones, Prov. 17. 22. And a wounded Spirit who can bear? Prov. 18. 14. And on the other hand, how often have the disjointing of the Body, and the breakings thereof, occasioned the expiration of the Spirit? In like manner it fares ⟨p. 5⟩with the Mystical Body of Christ, how do divided Spirits break the Bonds of Peace, which are the Joints of this Body? And how doth the breakings of the Body and Church of Christ, wound the Spirit of Christians, and oftentimes occasion the Spirit and Life of Christianity to languish, if not to expire? How needful is it then that we endeavour the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace?
Fourthly, The Natural Body cannot well subsist if either the Spirit be wounded, or the Joints broken or dislocated; the Body cannot bear a Wound or broken Spirit; A broken Spirit dryeth the Bones, Prov. 17. 22. And a wounded Spirit who can bear? Prov. 18. 14. And on the other hand, how often have the disjoyinting of the Body, and the breakings thereof, occasioned the expiration of the Spirit? In like manner it fares ⟨p. 5⟩with the Mystical Body of Christ, how do divided Spirits break the Bonds of Peace, which are the Joynts of this Body? And how doth the breakings of the Body and Church of Christ, wound the Spirit of Christians, and oftentimes occasion the Spirit and Life of Christianity to languish, if not to expire? How needful is it then that we endeavour the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace?