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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.
God is sanctified two ways: 1. Actively. 2. Passively.
God is sanctified two wayes: 1. Actively. 2. Passively.
1. Actively, as 1 Pet. 3.15. Sanctify the Lord in your hearts; and thus God is sanctified, when we cherish and maintain high esteems of God in our hearts, when we do honour, esteem, and advance God in our hearts, and in our lives.
1. Actively, as 1 Pet. 3.15. Sanctifie the Lord in your hearts; and thus God is sanctified, when wee cherish and maintain high esteems of God in our hearts, when we do honour, esteem, and advance God in our hearts, and in our lives.
2. Passively, by punishing of offenders, Ezek. 28.22. When I have executed my judgement on her, 1then shall I be sanctified in her. Jerome on this place saith, The punishment of offenders, is the sanctification of God; So you see it was in the Text, God was sanctified on them, not by their doing good, but by their suffering evil; not Actively, but Passively: And in both these senses the words are to be read, I say the words are to ⟨p. 5⟩be read in this disjunctive sense, I will be sanctified of all them that draw near to me, that is, either actively, in glorifying me in the work; or passively, in glorifying my self upon the workman;