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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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Fifthly; This Unity and Peace mainly consists in Unity of Love and Affection; this is the great and indispensable Duty of all Christians, by this they are declared Christ's Disciples: And hence it is that Love is called the Great Commandment, the Old Commandment, and the New Commandment; that which was commanded in the beginning, and will remain to the end, yea and after the end. 1 Cor. 13. 8. Charity never fails; but whether there be Tongues, they shall cease; or whether there be Knowledge, it shall vanish away. And, verse 13. And now abideth Faith, Hope and Charity; but the greatest of these is Charity. And▪ Col. 3. 14. Above all these things put on Charity, which is the Bond of Perfectness. Because Charity is the end of the Commandment, 1 Tim. 1. 5. Charity is therefore called the Royal Law; and though it had a ⟨p. 21⟩superintendency over other Laws, and doubtless is a Law to which other Laws must give place, when they come in competition with it; Above all things therefore have fervent Charity among your selves, for Charity covereth a multitude of Sins, 1 Pet. 4. 8. Let us therefore live in Unity and Peace, and the God of Love and Peace will be with us.
Fifthly; This Unity and Peace mainly consists in Unity of Love and Affection; this is the great and indispensible Duty of all Christians, by this they are declared Christ's Disciples: And hence it is that Love is called the Great Commandment, the Old Commandment, and the New Commandment; that which was commanded in the beginning, and will remain to the end, yea and after the end. 1 Cor. 13. 8. Charity never fails; but whether there be Tongues, they shall cease; or whether there be Knowledg, it shall vanish away. And, verse 13. And now abideth Faith, Hope and Charity; but the greatest of these is Charity. And▪