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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.
The Passover under the Law was to be eaten with bitter herbs: So Christ, the true Passover, is here to be eaten with bitterness of soul: as it was prophesied; They shall look on him whom they have pierced, and shall lament, and mourn; first seeing, and then weeping, &c. Zach. 12.10.
The Passeover under the Law was to be eaten with bitter herbs: So Christ, the true Passover, is here to be eaten with bitternesse of soul: as it was prophesied; They shal look on him whom they have pierced, and shall lament, and mourne; first seeing, and then weeping, &c. Zach. 12.10.
There is a twofold mourning, 1. Historical; 2. Spiritual. 1. Historical mourning; there is a natural tenderness in men and women, whereby their hearts do yearn and melt to hear the relation, or behold the sight of some sad story. Such a one as Augustine confesseth he had when he read the sad story of Dido: and yet his heart was hard, he could not mourn for sin. Or such a one as they had, whom Christ blamed in the Gospel, who lamented the cruel usage of Christ out of natural compassion only; to whom ⟨p. 80⟩he saith, O daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me. 1Of this the Father speaks, It is not necessary you lament his passion, so much as your sins, which have caused his passion. There is a kind of natural tenderness in men and women, which yet is often joined with hardness of heart for sin. As an Historical faith, with spiritual unbelief, and an Historical love, with spiritual enmity; so a natural tenderness, with spiritual hardness of heart for sin.
There is a twofold mourning, 1. Historicall; 2. Spirituall. 1. Historicall mourning; there is a naturall tendernesse in men and women, whereby their hearts doe yearn and melt to heare the relation, or behold the sight of some sad story. Such a one as Augustine confesseth he had when he read the sad story of Dido: and yet his heart was hard, he could not mourn for sin. Or such a one as they had, whom Christ blamed in the Gospel, who lamented the cruell usage of Christ out of naturall compassion only; to whom