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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.
It is reported of the Leviathan, that his strength is in his Scales, Job 41. 15, 16, 17. His Scales are his pride, shut up together, as with a close Seal; one is so near to another, that no Air can come between them; they join together, they stick together, they cannot be sundered. If the Church of God were united like the Scales of Leviathan, it would not be every brain-sick Notion, nor angry Speculation, that would cause their separation.
It is reported of the Leviathan, that his strength is in his Scales, Job 41. 15, 16, 17. His Scales are his pride, shut up together, as with a close Seal; one is so near to another, that no Air can come between them; they join together, they stick together, they cannot be sundred. If the Church of God were united like the Scales of Leviathan, it would not be every brain-sick Notion, nor angry Speculation, that would cause their separation.
Solomon saith, Two are better than one, because if one fail, the other may raise him; then surely twenty are better than two, and an hundred are better than twenty, for the same reason, because they are more capable to help one another. If ever Christians would do any thing to raise up the fallen Tabernacles of Jacob, and to strengthen the weak, and comfort the feeble, and to fetch back those that have gone astray, it must be by Unity.
Solomon saith, Two are better than one, because if one fail, the other may raise him; then surely twenty are better than two, and an hundred are better than twenty, for the same reason, because they are more capable to help one another. If ever Christians would do any thing to raise up the fall'n Tabernacles of Jacob, and to strengthen the weak, and comfort the feeble, and to fetch back those that have gone astray, it must be by Unity.