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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28622	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 ...	Bolton, Samuel, 1606-1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3520; ESTC R33239	55,356	184

break thy heart for sin Where are the chambers where the closets where the bed-sides that can bear witness of thy mourning for sin And yet dost thou come Thou breakst God's order and so art a prophaner of this holy Table 2. If thou breakst God's rules that thou dost not prepare thy self by examination and excitation of thy graces but rushest into God's presence breaks in upon this Ordinance without any sutable affections to it thou art a prophaner of this Ordinance c. 3. If thou dost not observe God's ends but comes hither as many do either to avoid scandall or the censures of men or for custome or for fashion sake because others come therefore thou wilt not stay away or which I cannot express with abhorrencie and detestation enough because thou shalt sit at thy Master's table that day and go into the fields afterward Thou art a prophaner of this ordinance And Oh! that we had some Tirshatha to drive these away Wee read in Ezra 2.61 62. that Tirshatha would not suffer the sons of Kosse and Barzilli to eat of the holy things because their genealogies were not found registred among them If thou be not in the book of life if thy name be not written in the genealogies of the Saints thou art not fit to come In the want of coercive power to fence this Ordinance give me leave to put a few places to you to consider The first is in Titus 1.15 To the unclean all is unclean the second is in the Proverbs 21.27 The prayers of the wicked are abomination The third Psal 66.18 Hee that regardeth iniquity in his heart c. though hee never come to act it in this life God will not regard his prayers The fourth Psal 50.16 What hast thou to do to take my covenant into thy mouth and hatest to be reformed c. And if this will not prevail reade and tremble thou prophane person 1 Cor. 11.29 Hee that eateth and drinketh unworthily c. Hee is made guilty of Christ's death as Pilate Herod Judas the Souldiers were Hee eats and drinks damnation to himself and for this cause many were sick weak and fallen asleep And to this adde the example of the unbidden guest who came without a wedding Garment it fared ill with them that came not but worse with him which tels us an unsanctified presence is worse then a prophane absence But yet wilt thou adventure dost thou finde any thing in the Sacrament to incourage thee to come Let us look upon it under the severall names and notions under which it s presented 1. It s called a Seal and is the Sacrament any incouragement to thee under this notion unto whom the Word doth promise nothing the Sacrament seals nothing but the Word promiseth nothing to unregenerate men All God's Word is against thee nothing for thee and therefore here is but poor incouragement the seal annexed to a Deed doth confirm it to none but such to whom the Deed was made So here the Sacrament being the seal of the Covenant belongs to none but those to whom the Covenant is made Now art thou out of Covenant one that hath no interest in Christ thou hast nothing here 2. It s called a Communion 1. A Communion of the members one with another 2. A communion of the members with the head Now till thou be united to Christ thou hast nothing here Christ derives influence onely to branches life onely to his members * Qui vult vivere in capite oportet esse in corpore Caput corporis sui caput non alieni hee must be in the Son that hath life from him he that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life 3. It 's called a Supper the Lord's Supper Now is this any incouragement for thee to come who art a prophane person There are three things requisite in the persons that goe to a supper Life Appetite Apparell 1. Life Dead men cannot feed Christ never spread his table for dead men if thou be not alive thou art not called hither to feed 2. Appetite What shall they do at a supper that have no stomach no appetite and what do you here who have no hunger no thirsting after Christ you that never apprehended what the want of Christ nor never knew the worth of Christ 3. Apparell No man will go naked to a Feast your apparell here is the Wedding Garment Christ for justification Christ for sanctification and he that came without this you see what became of him it had been better he had stayed away it fared better with them then with him An unsanctified presence will be found as bad as a prophane absence Those that draw neer to God in an Ordinance and do not sanctifie God in it God will be sanctified upon them And that is the third and last Doctrine which wee now come unto viz. God will be sanctified upon every one who do not sanctifie him in his ordinances Doct. 3 In the prosecution of which wee will shew 1. What is meant by God's sanctifying himself on men 2. Why God wil sanctify himself on those that do not sanctifie him in Ordinances and so wee shall come to application 1. For the first What is meant by God's sanctifying himself on a man For the answer of which I conceive that place which I named in the beginning Ezek. c. 28. v. 22. will afford us some help When I have executed my judgments on her then will I be sanctified in her Upon which Jerome * Sanctificatio Dei est paena peccātium God is sanctified in the punishment of offenders so you see it in the Text God's punishment of Nadab and Abihu was the occasion of the word I will be sanctified 1. Then God doth sanctifie himself on men when hee inflicts corporall punishments upon men for prophaning his Ordinance as you see here and the like 1 Cor. 11.29 For this cause many are sick c. 2. God sanctifies himself on men when hee inflicts spirituall punishment upon men c. viz. security blindness hardness when men do not walk sutably to the light of Ordinances hee takes away either light or sight either ordinances or men's eyes that seeing they might not see c. 3. God doth sanctifie himself on men who prophane his Ordinance when he doth inflict eternall punishments upon men this see in the 1 Cor. 11.29 Hee who eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself that which for the present makes him obnoxious to damnation and shall in the end fix him in flames lay him in hell if he do not repent yea and the deepest cellars in hell are for them who have lived in a prophanation of Ordinances And this in brief shall suffice to tell you what is meant by God's sanctifying himself upon men We come to the second thing propounded what are the Reasons God doth sanctifie himself on those that do not sanctifie him in Ordinances 1.