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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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See the Spirit that was among the Primitive Professors, that knowing and believing how much it concerned them in the propagating of Christianity, to show forth Love to one another (that so all might know them to be Christ's Disciples) rather than there should be any complainings among them, they sold all they had: Oh how zealous were these to practice, and with one Shoulder to do that that was upon their Hearts for God! I might further add, how often have we agreed in our Judgment? and hath it not been upon our Hearts, that this and the other Thing is good to be done, to enlighten the dark World, and to repair the breaches of Churches, and to raise up those Churches that now ⟨p. 18⟩lie a gasping, and among whom the Sou• of Religion is expiring? But what […] we more than talk of them? Do no• most decline these things, when they either call for their Purses, or their Persons to help in this and such-like Work• as these? Let us then, in what we know• unite, that we may put it in practice remembering, that if we know these things, we shall be happy if we d• them.
See the Spirit that was among the Primitive Professors, that knowing and believing how much it concerned them in the propagating of Christianity, to shew forth Love to one another (that so all might know them to be Christ's Disciples) rather than there should be any complainings among them, they sold all they had: Oh how zealous were these to practice, and with one Shoulder to do that that was upon their Hearts for God! I might further add, how often have we agreed in our Judgment? and hath it not been upon our Hearts, that this and the other Thing is good to be done, to enlighten the dark World, and to repair the breaches of Churches, and to raise up those Churches that now ⟨p. 18⟩lie a gasping, and among whom the Sou• of Religion is expiring? But what 〈…〉 we more than talk of them? Do no• most decline these things, when they either call for their Purses, or their Persons to help in this and such-like Work as these? Let us then, in what we know unite, that we may put it in practice remembring, that if we know these things, we shall be happy if we d them.