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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.
Use 2. Is it so? Then it behooves us to enquire, whether we have sanctified God in these Ordinances. We have to do with God's Ordinances daily, you see God requires, who ever have to do with his Ordinances, should ⟨p. 113⟩sanctify God in them. Let us then ask the Question of our selves: Have I sanctified God in this Ordinance? I have often come to the Sacrament, but have I sanctified God in it? Now you might know this by looking over the things: 1. Precedent: 2. Concomitant: 3. Subsequent. But at this time I shall follow this method: Would you know whether you have sanctified God in this Ordinance; see then, whether you have observed: 1. God's order: 2. God's rules: 3. God's ends; and this before your coming. 2. whether you have exercised God's graces in the time. 3. whether you have returned with God's quickenings, God's enlargements, God's inablements afterward.
Vse 2. Is it so? Then it behooves us to enquire, whether we have sanctified God in these Ordinances. Wee have to do with God's Ordinances daily, you see God requires, who ever have to do with his Ordinances, should ⟨p. 113⟩sanctifie God in them. Let us then ask the Question of our selves: Have I sanctified God in this Ordinance? I have often come to the Sacrament, but have I sanctified God in it? Now you might know this by looking over the things: 1. Precedent: 2. Concomitant: 3. Subsequent. But at this time I shall follow this method: Would you know whether you have sanctified God in this Ordinance; see then, whether you have observed: 1. God's order: 2. God's rules: 3. God's ends; and this before your coming. 2. whether you have exercised God's graces in the time. 3. whether you have returned with God's quickenings, God's inlargements, God's inablements afterward.
1. See whether you have observed God's order. Now God's order is this, to justify a man, put on him the Wedding Garment; ⟨p. 114⟩