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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 Unity brings Men into the Church, and Divisions keep them out. It is reported of an Indian passing by the House of a Christian, and hearing them contending, being desired to turn in, he refused, saying, Habamack dwells there, meaning, that the Devil dwelt there: but where Unity and Peace is, there God is; and he that dwells in Love, dwells in God. The Apostle tells the Corinthians, That if they walked orderly, even the Unbeliever would hereby be enforced to come and worship, and say, God was in them indeed. And we read, Zech. 8. 23. of a Time when ten Men shall take hold of a Jew, and say, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.
It is Unity brings Men into the Church, and Divisions keep them out. It is reported of an Indian passing by the House of a Christian, and hearing them contending, being desired to turn in, he refused, saying, Habamack dwells there, meaning, that the Devil dwelt there: but where Unity and Peace is, there God is; and he that dwels in Love, dwells in God. The Apostle tells the Corinthians, That if they walked orderly, even the Unbeliever would hereby be enforced to come and worship, and say, God was in them indeed. And we read, Zech. 8. 23. of a Time when ten Men shall take hold of a Jew, and say, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.
And hence i• is that Christ prays, John 17. 21. That his Disciples might be one, as the Father and he were one, that the World might believe the Father sent him: As if he should say, you may preach me as long as you will, and to little ⟨p. 36⟩purpose, if you are not at Peace and Unity among your selves. Such was the Unity of Christians in former days, that the intelligent Heathen would say of them, That though they had many Bodies, yet they had but one Soul: And we read the same of them,