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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.
2. Actual preparation, and that consists in the actual stirring up and exciting of those graces which are in you. There must be a new exciting of faith, a new exercise of repentance, the latitude ⟨p. 44⟩and extent whereof is for all sin, but especially for those sins which you have committed since the last time you renewed your covenant with God, in this Ordinance. So a stirring up of our love, affections, our desires, hunger, thirst. This is required before, which because it is so largely treated upon, 1by many learned and godly Divines, I shall purposely wave any further treaty of it, referring you in this point to what they have so largely written.
2. Actuall preparation, and that consists in the actuall stirring up and exciting of those graces which are in you. There must be a new exciting of faith, a new exercise of repentance, the latitude ⟨p. 44⟩and extent whereof is for all sin, but especially for those sinnes which you have committed since the last time you renewed your covenant with God, in this Ordinance. So a stirring up of our love, affections, our desires, hunger, thirst. This is required before, which because it is so largely treated upon, 1by many learned and godly Divines, I shall purposely wave any further treaty of it, referring you in this point to what they have so largely written.
- 1Mr. Dike on the Sacrament. Mr. Downam.
Passing this therefore, we fall upon the second, which hath not been so frequently taught.