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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
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3. God doth sanctify himself on men who profane his Ordinance, when he doth inflict eternal punishments upon men; this see in the 1 Cor. 11.29. He who eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself; that which for the present makes him obnoxious to damnation, and shall in the end fix him in flames, lay him in hell, if he do not repent; yea, and the deepest cellars in hell, are for them who have lived in a profanation of Ordinances. And this in brief shall suffice to tell you what is meant by God's sanctifying himself upon men.
3. God doth sanctifie himself on men who prophane his Ordinance, when he doth inflict eternall punishments upon men; this see in the 1 Cor. 11.29. Hee who eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself; that which for the present makes him obnoxious to damnation, and shall in the end fix him in flames, lay him in hell, if he do not repent; yea, and the deepest cellars in hell, are for them who have lived in a prophanation of Ordinances. And this in brief shall suffice to tell you what is meant by God's sanctifying himself upon men.
We come to the second thing propounded, what are the Reasons God doth sanctify himself on those that do not sanctify him in Ordinances.
We come to the second thing propounded, what are the Reasons God doth sanctifie himself on those that do not sanctifie him in Ordinances.
1. In terrorem, Reas. 1 for the terror and dread of all profane persons, that when you hear how God hath punished others, who have profaned the Ordinances of God, you might tremble, and not dare to profane them. If God should only threaten, and should not sometime execute his displeasure upon such as were profaners of his Ordinances, men would not fear to profane them. They would but make children-play of all the threatenings of God, as they did in