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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.
2. There is a spiritual mourning, which ariseth from spiritual grounds and causes, and tends to spiritual ends. A sorrow which is caused by faith, looking upon heart-melting promises, or taking up heart-breaking considerations, or beholding a heart-softening object, by which Faith doth draw waters out of the fountains of the soul for sin, as you ⟨p. 81⟩have it, 1 Sam. 7.6. they drew water (as out of a well) and poured it forth before the Lord. And this is that sorrow which is here to be exercised, which will melt and mellow the heart, and cause it to be more fruitful in obedience. Never doth the garden of graces better grow, then after such a shower of repentant tears. And therefore doth God preserve these springs in the soul, to water the seeds of grace, and make us more fruitful, which it surely doth when they are Sun-shine-showers, such showers wherein the Sun appears, Christ is not hid from the eye of faith.
2. There is a spirituall mourning, which ariseth from spirituall grounds and causes, and tends to spirituall ends. A sorrow which is caused by faith, looking upon heart-melting promises, or taking up heart-breaking considerations, or beholding a heart-softning object, by which Faith doth draw waters out of the fountaines of the soul for sin, as you ⟨p. 81⟩have it, 1 Sam. 7.6. they drew water (as out of a well) and poured it forth before the Lord. And this is that sorrow which is here to be exercised, which will melt and mellow the heart, and cause it to be more fruitfull in obedience. Never doth the garden of graces better grow, then after such a showre of repentant tears. And therefore doth God preserve these springs in the soul, to water the seeds of grace, and make us more fruitfull, which it surely doth when they are Sun-shine-showres, such showres wherein the Sun appeares, Christ is not hid from the eye of faith.