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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.
To the sanctifying of God in an Ordinance, there is something required, 1. In the work. 2. In the workman.
1. The work, and that is, that it be an ordinance, such a one as he himself hath instituted and set up, otherwise we cannot sanctify God in it, no more then the Papists in their blind devotions and superstitions. These offer strange fire. As God's Benediction doth not accompany any thing further then 'tis an Ordinance of his, so our sanctification of God extends no further then to his own ordinances, which he himself hath set ⟨p. 36⟩up & ordained; in other things we sanctify him not, we dishonour him.
1. The work, and that is, that it be an ordinance, such a one as he himself hath instituted and set up, otherwise wee cannot sanctifie God in it, no more then the Papists in their blind devotions and superstitions. These offer strange fire. As God's Benediction doth not accompany any thing further then 'tis an Ordinance of his, so our sanctification of God extends no further then to his own ordinances, which he himself hath set ⟨p. 36⟩up & ordained; in other things we sanctifie him not, we dishonor him.
2. Something required in the workman: To say nothing here of the main requisite, wch is, that he be in Christ: for that we take he be in Christ: for that we take for granted; & to qualify such a one to this ordinance: and in such a one there is something required in his head, something in his heart.
2. Something required in the workman: To say nothing here of the main requisite, wch is, that hee be in Christ: for that we take hee be in Christ: for that we take for granted; & to qualifie such a one to this ordinance: and in such a one there is something required in his head, somthing in his heart.