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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.
1. Because otherwise ye get no good: 1. no good of Grace, no improvement of Holiness: 2. Nor no good of comfort. Comfort comes not in from the bare doing of the duty, but from the manner of doing, it is not the issue of conscience to do, but of conscionableness in the doing of them. All the Sermons you have heard, all the Prayers you have prayed, all the Sacraments you have received, though done out of conscience, as you say, will not minister one dram of true comfort to you upon your deathbeds, if your spirits have not been wrought up to a conscionableness in the doing of them.
1. Because otherwise ye get no good: 1. no good of Grace, no improvement of Holinesse: 2. Nor no good of cōfort. Comfort comes not in from the bare doing of the duty, but from the manner of doing, it is not the issue of conscience to doe, but of conscionablenesse in the doing of them. All the Sermons you have heard, all the Prayers you have prayd, all the Sacraments you have received, though done out of conscience, as you say, will not minister one dram of true comfort to you upon your deathbeds, if your spirits have not been wrought up to a conscionablenesse in the doing of them.
2. Because otherwise you provoke God; to give him the carcass and out-side of duty, and to with-hold the life and spirit of duty, is a provocation of God.
2. Because otherwise you provoke God; to give him the carkasse and out-side of duty, and to with-hold the life and spirit of duty, is a provocation of God.
3. Because otherwise you will contract much guilt, and bring much evil upon your own souls. This is sure, that Ordinances used in an unconscionable way, 1. They give Satan further possession of us. 2. They put much weight to our sin. 3. They set our souls at further distance with God. 4. They ripen us to the great downfall, the great sin lies among such. 5. They make our conditions more irrecoverable. When a man comes to be Ordinance-proof, prayer-proof, Sermon and Sacrament-proof, that none of these can enter and work upon him, he is out-grown the power of Ordinances, that man's condition is