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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.
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 2 Peter 3.3. There shall come in the last day, [Greek or Hebrew], scoffers, such as shall make children-play of all the threats of God, and look upon them but as harmless Bug-bears, to keep them in awe only. But when God doth back a threatening with a punishment, as you see he did here in the Text, and on the Corinthians, this strikes dread into ⟨p. 134⟩the hearts of profane persons.
1. In terrorem, Reas. 1 for the terror and dread of all prophane persons, that when you hear how God hath punished others, who have prophaned the Ordinances of God, you might tremble, and not dare to prophane them. If God should only threaten, and should not sometime execute his displeasure upon such as were prophaners of his Ordinances, men would not fear to prophane them. They would but make children-play of all the threatnings of God, as they did in 2 Peter 3.3. There shall come in the last day, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, scoffers, such as shall make children-play of all the threats of God, and look upon them but as harmless Bug-beares, to keep them in awe only. But when God doth back a threatning with a punishment, as you see hee did here in the Text, and on the Corinthians, this strikes dread into