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The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse showing a Christians…The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse shewing a Christians…
The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse showing a Christians privilege in approaching to God in ordinances, duty in his sacramental approaches, danger if he do not sanctify God in them / by Samuel Bolton ...The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse shewing a Christians priviledge in approaching to God in ordinances, duty in his sacramentall approaches, danger if hee do not sanctifie God in them / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by M. Simmons for A. Kembe, 1644
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.
3. 1Faith looks upon this ordinance as an Instrument, a means which God hath set up for the conveying of life and nourishment from Christ. Though God can do it without, yet in God's ordinary way, Ordinances are the means of the conveying of life from him to us.
- 1Sacramenta ex similitudine repraesentant ex institutione significant, ex virtute Christi sanctificant, Aquin.
4. Now then, faith being steeled by such considerations as these, that there is a fullness in Christ, that there is a promise of this fullness to be made over to us, and that the Sacrament is an Ordinance whereby God as by an Instrument will convey of this fullness of Christ to a poor soul: faith goes over to Christ, and by virtue of the Promise, applying and feeding upon Christ, draws down further life and nourishment from him to the soul: As one said of the tree of Christ's ascension, though the fruit were high, and above our reach, yet if we touch him by the hand of faith, and tongue of prayer, all will fall down upon us: So here, if we can but touch him with the hand of faith, though a palsy hand, though a weak and trembling hand; if we can but go to him with a praying heart, Christ ⟨p. 66⟩can with-hold nothing from us.
4. Now then, faith being steeled by such considerations as these, that there is a fulness in Christ, that there is a promise of this fulnes to be made over to us, and that the Sacrament is an Ordinance wherby God as by an Instrument will convey of this fulness of Christ to a poor soul: faith goes over to Christ, and by vertue of the Promise, applying and feeding upon Christ, draws down further life and nourishment from him to the soul: As one said of the tree of Christ's ascension, though the fruit were high, and above our reach, yet if wee touch him by the hand of faith, and tongue of prayer, all will fall down upon us: So here, if we can but touch him with the hand of faith, though a palsie hand, though a weak and trembling hand; if we can but goe to him with a praying heart, Christ