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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. 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⟩to sanctify a man, to beget him anew before he bring him on this Ordinance. 1. Art thou then justified? Hath God given thee an interest in Christ? Hath he discovered thy sins to thee? Hath he humbled thy soul under the sense and burden of sin? Hath he revealed to thee what footing and ground there is in the Word, for receiving graceless persons to life? Hath he cleared to thee the truth, fullness, freeness, goodness of the promise? Hath he brought thy soul over to assent to the truth, embrace the goodness, rest upon the firmness of it; and to bring all this home to thy own soul? Thou art a man who art justified, and God calls thee hither to put his Seal to thy Evidence, that thou mayest be assured for ever, that Christ is thine, and thou Christs.
1. See whether you have observed God's order. Now God's order is this, to justifie a man, put on him the Wedding Garment; ⟨p. 114⟩to sanctifie a man, to beget him anew before he bring him on this Ordinance. 1. Art thou then justified? Hath God given thee an interest in Christ? Hath he discovered thy sins to thee? Hath he humbled thy soul under the sense and burthen of sin? Hath hee revealed to thee what footing and ground there is in the Word, for receiving graceless persons to life? Hath he cleared to thee the truth, fulness, freeness, goodness of the promise? Hath he brought thy soul over to assent to the truth, imbrace the goodness, rest upon the firmness of it; and to bring all this home to thy own soul? Thou art a man who art justified, and God calls thee hither to put his Seal to thy Evidence, that thou mayest be assured for ever, that Christ is thine, and thou Christs.
2. Art thou a man sanctified, renewed, regenerated? Hath God ⟨p. 115⟩