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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.
shall that which should be a blood of pardon, become a blood of guilt? Oh! what is it to be guilty of that blood, should take away guilt? If thou wert guilty of all the sins of men on earth, and damned in hell, ⟨p. 150⟩the blood of Christ could pardon thee, and take off that guilt. But what shall take off the guilt of that that should take off guilt? Oh! see what a sin it is; and in the fear of God, add not this to all your sin, to all your swearings, your profanations, drunkenness, add not this to all, to be guilty of the body and blood of Christ; assure your selves, God will not care for your bodies, who have no regard to the body of his Son; shall your blood be esteemed when the blood of Christ is contemned? shall your lives be prized when the death of his Son is slighted? nay, when you by this sin shall crucify Christ again? judge that.
shall that which should be a blood of pardon, become a blood of guilt? Oh! what is it to be guilty of that blood, should take away guilt? If thou wert guilty of all the sins of men on earth, and damn'd in hell, ⟨p. 150⟩the blood of Christ could pardon thee, and take off that guilt. But what shal take off the guilt of that that should take off guilt? Oh! see what a sin it is; and in the fear of God, adde not this to all your sin, to all your swearings, your prophanations, drunkenness, adde not this to all, to be guilty of the body and blood of Christ; assure your selves, God will not care for your bodies, who have no regard to the body of his Son; shall your blood be esteemed when the blood of Christ is contemned? shall your lives be priz'd when the death of his Son is sleighted? nay, when you by this sin shal crucifie Christ again? judge that.
Use 3. Well then, if the sin be so great, and the punishment wch God hath threatened be so terrible, what care ought we to have, we do not profane this Ordinance? and what care to look back ⟨p. 151⟩