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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.
distance in life breeds distance in duty. And what need of keeping up praying affections? what a shame to have our lives give our lips the lye, our practice be a confutation of our prayers? In our prayer to be warm, in our practice cold, up in duty, down in life? Oh learn to live as high as duty; thou never prayest indeed, till thy practice come up as high as thy prayers, till thou loves confessions, and art humble, thou loves petitions and art thirsty, and diligent for those ⟨p. 19⟩things thou begs, till a man may read by thy life, that thou art one who desirest those things, which thou hast uttered with thy lips. Let this frame of spirit be in your eye to aim at, and in your life to endeavour after. — But I am too large, I intended this doctrine only for the porch or entrance to the rest. To draw therefore up to the conclusion of it.
distance in life breeds distance in duty. And what need of keeping up praying affections? what a shame to have our lives give our lips the lye, our practice be a confutation of our prayers? In our prayer to be warm, in our practice cold, up in duty, down in life? Oh learn to live as high as duty; thou never prayest indeed, till thy practice come up as high as thy prayers, till thou loves confessions, and art humble, thou loves petitions and art thirsty, and diligent for those ⟨p. 19⟩things thou begs, till a man may reade by thy life, that thou art one who desirest those things, which thou hast uttered with thy lips. Let this frame of spirit be in your eye to aim at, and in your life to indeavour after. — But I am too large, I intended this doctrine only for the porch or entrance to the rest. To draw therefore up to the conclusion of it.
I. If it be so, that who ever hath to do with an Ordinance, hath to do with God in it, he draws near to God; Let me then exhort you: 1. To a conscionable use of Ordinances. 2. To conscionableness in the use of them.