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…

1. Life: Dead men cannot feed; Christ never spread his table for dead men; if thou be not alive, thou art not called hither to feed.

2. Appetite: What shall they do at a supper that have no stomach, no appetite? and what do you here, who have no hunger, no thirsting after Christ, you that never apprehended what the want of Christ, nor never knew the worth of Christ?

3. Apparel: No man will go naked to a Feast; your apparel here is the Wedding Garment; Christ for justification, Christ for sanctification; and he that came ⟨p. 130⟩without this, you see what became of him; it had been better he had stayed away; it fared better with them then with him. An unsanctified presence will be found as bad as a profane absence. Those that draw near to God in an Ordinance, and do not sanctify God in it, God will be sanctified upon them; And that is the third and last Doctrine which we now come unto, viz.

3. Apparell: No man will go naked to a Feast; your apparell here is the Wedding Garment; Christ for justification, Christ for sanctification; and he that came ⟨p. 130⟩without this, you see what became of him; it had been better he had stayed away; it fared better with them then with him. An unsanctified presence will be found as bad as a prophane absence. Those that draw neer to God in an Ordinance, and do not sanctifie God in it, God will be sanctified upon them; And that is the third and last Doctrine which wee now come unto, viz.