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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.
In the Temple, though there was so much flesh for sacrifice, yet there was not one Fly appeared stirring; oh that it might be so with us this day! that not one thought might arise upon our hearts, unsuitable to the place and work in hand. It is a thing unbefitting these great employments, to have our hearts and thoughts taken up with other businesses; what have you to do here with your shops, your bags, your chests? What have you here to do with things of this world?1
In the Temple, though there was so much flesh for sacrifice, yet there was not one Flie appeared stirring; oh that it might be so with us this day! that not one thought might arise upon our hearts, unsutable to the place and work in hand. It is a thing unbefitting these great imployments, to have our hearts and thoughts taken up with other businesses; what have you to do here with your shops, your bags, your chests? What have you here to do with things of this world?1
- 1Quid proficit si meditations tuae in lege Dei sint? & ipsae in se ipsis sine lege sint. Bern. in Cant.Quid proficit si meditationes tuae in lege Dei sint? & ipsae in se ipsis sine lege sint. Bern. in Cant.
Oh make not this place an Exchange, a Shop for merchandise, men are not able to do business in a crowd, nor you so great a business as this in a crowd of thoughts. But this is the misery, you are ⟨p. 92⟩servants and slaves to the world at other times, and therefore the world will master you now. If you pass over your hearts to the service of the world at other times, the world will make you serve it now. Because you have not spiritual hearts in your temporal employments, therefore have you carnal hearts in your spiritual employments. The less of the Sabbath in the week, the more you shall find of the week in the Sabbath. The less spiritual you are in affairs of earth, the more carnal you will be in the employments of Heaven. This is certain, if the world once take your heart, it will take your head also. I say, if ever the world leaven your hearts, it will also poison your heads; it is a leaven diffuseth it self through the whole man. And therefore as Christ said of the leaven of the Pharisees,