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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.
1. Get your hearts now further set against sin. Oh! let your souls say, Hath God been so gracious, as to renew and confirm my pardon, and shall I again dishonour him? Hath he wiped off my former scores, and shall I run on afresh to offend him? Hath he taken off my former burden, and cast it on the back of his dear Son, and shall I again lay more load upon him? Hath he spoken peace to me in his Ordinance, and shall I again return to folly? No, far be it from me. I have washed my feet, how shall I again defile them? I have put off my coat, how shall I again put it on? ⟨p. 100⟩saith the Christian soul. Profane men, they do by their sins, as the Serpent with his poison, lay it aside when they go to drink, but afterward take it up: Or, as men do with a garment, put it off at night, but put it on in the morning. And this is fearful, to return with the dog to the vomit. 1But God's people cast them away, 2as a menstruous rag, never more to have to do with them.
1. Get your hearts now further set against sin. Oh! let your souls say, Hath God been so gracious, as to renew and confirm my pardon, and shall I again dishonour him? Hath hee wiped off my former scores, and shall I run on afresh to offend him? Hath hee taken off my former burthen, and cast it on the back of his dear Son, and shall I again lay more load upon him? Hath he spoken peace to me in his Ordinance, and shall I again return to folly? No, far be it from me. I have washed my feet, how shall I again defile them? I have put off my coat, how shal I again put it on? ⟨p. 100⟩saith the Christian soul. Prophane men, they do by their sins, as the Serpent with his poyson, lay it aside when they go to drink, but afterward take it up: Or, as men do with a garment, put it off at night, but put it on in the morning. And this is fearfull, to return with the dog to the vomit. 1But God's people cast them away, 2