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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. It is more special: 1. how the soul hath carried it self under former Sacraments, & in particular since the last Sacrament: what ⟨p. 117⟩good it hath gotten; what more strength of faith; what more weakening of corruption; what more increase of grace; what more ability to serve God; and what evil it hath done; all which should be set on upon the soul, with the many aggravations, being sins against vows, promises, against covenant, which doth add much guilt to sin, and double the offence. 2. The soul is to examine it self, how it stands for present; what aptness, what fitness for the duty; what Sacramental sorrow; what faith to close wth God in the present offer, what fitness to join wth its fellow-members in holy communion and love; what hungering and thirsting after Christ in this Ordinance; what spiritual appetite; what present disposition of soul to renew bonds and covenants with God in this Ordinance.
2. It is more speciall: 1. how the soul hath carried it self under former Sacraments, & in particular since the last Sacrament: what ⟨p. 117⟩good it hath gotten; what more strēgth of faith; what more weakning of corruption; what more increase of grace; what more ability to serve God; and what evil it hath done; all which should be set on upon the soul, with the many aggravations, being sins against vowes, promises, against covenant, which doth adde much guilt to sin, and double the offence. 2. The soul is to examine it self, how it stands for present; what aptness, what fitness for the duty; what Sacramentall sorrow; what faith to close wth God in the present offer, what fitness to joyn wth its fellow-members in holy cōmunion and love; what hungring and thirsting after Christ in this Ordinance; what spirituall appetite; what present disposition of soul to renew bonds and covenants with God in this Ordinance.
Of these and the like are we to ⟨p. 118⟩