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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. Get your hearts further strengthened to service. Here is in this Ordinance a mutual sealing of Covenants between God and you. As God seals to thee, so thou seals again to God. God seals to the first part of the Covenant, pardon, mercy, grace; and thou seals to the second part of it, service, subjection, obedience: God gives Christ to thee here in this Ordinance, and thou gives thy self back again to Christ. As ⟨p. 101⟩there is matter of bounty from God to thee, so there is matter of duty from thee to God; God here in bounty bestows Christ upon every humble, broken hearted and believing receiver: They take him, and re-give themselves back again to him for subjection and obedience. There was never any soul, to whom God said in this Ordinance, I am thine, whose hearts did not echo again the same to God, Lord, I am thine. This head is thine to contrive thy glory, this hand is thine to work for thee, this hart is thine to love thee, He that says, my beloved is mine, says again, and I am his; Cant. 2.16. 1Let us then labour to see our hearts further strengthened to service; let this enable thee to walk:
2. Get your hearts further strengthened to service. Here is in this Ordinance a mutuall sealing of Covenants between God and you. As God seals to thee, so thou seals again to God. God seals to the first part of the Covenant, pardon, mercy, grace; and thou seals to the second part of it, service, subjection, obedience: God gives Christ to thee here in this Ordinance, and thou gives thy self back again to Christ. As ⟨p. 101⟩there is matter of bountie from God to thee, so there is matter of duty from thee to God; God here in bounty bestowes Christ upon every humble, broken hearted and believing receiver: They take him, and re-give themselves back again to him for subjection and obedience. There was never any soul, to whom God said in this Ordinance, I am thine, whose hearts did not eccho again the same to God, Lord, I am thine. This head is thine to contrive thy glory, this hand is thine to work for thee, this hart is thine to love thee, He that sayes, my beloved is mine, sayes again, and I am his;