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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.
4. See what's the reason the Saints are so much taken with Ordinances, because they draw near to God in them; they look upon Ordinances as Bridges to give them a passage to God; as Boats to convey them into the bosom of Christ, 1as means to bring them into more intimate communion with their Father, ⟨p. 14⟩therefore are they so much taken wth them. When they go to the Word, they go as one goes to hear news of a friend; when they go to pray, they go to talk with a friend; when to read, they go to read a letter from a friend; when to receive, they go to sup with a friend: they look upon Ordinances as those things whereby they have to do with God, and therefore are ordinances so precious. Indeed to them who have to do with nothing but duty, in duty, but prayer, in prayer, but hearing, in hearing, to them the Ordinances are dead, dry, and spiritless things, but they who have to do with God in duty, they who have communion with God in Ordinances, to them Ordinances are passing sweet and precious.
4. See what's the reason the Saints are so much taken with Ordinances, because they draw neer to God in them; they look upon Ordinances as Bridges to give them a passage to God; as Boats to convey them into the bosome of Christ, 1as means to bring them into more intimate communion with their Father, ⟨p. 14⟩therfore are they so much taken wth them. When they go to the Word, they go as one goes to hear news of a friend; when they go to pray, they go to talk with a friend; when to read, they go to reade a letter from a friend; when to receive, they go to sup with a friend: they look upon Ordinances as those things whereby they have to do with God, and therfore are ordinances so precious. Indeed to them who have to do with nothing but duty, in duty, but prayer, in prayer, but hearing, in hearing, to them the Ordinances are dead, dry, and spiritless things, but they who have to do with God in duty, they who have communion with God in Ordinances, to them Ordinances are passing sweet and precicious.
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