Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…

Hence learn what you do when you come to Worship God and consider of it every time you come to perform any act of Worship. Truly this one thing would be of marvellous use, and it would help forward to the next point of Sanctifying of Gods Name. This you are all convinced of, That it is your duty to Worship God; when you Pray, you come to Worship God, when you come to hear his Word you come to worship him, and when you receive the Sacrament you Worship him. Now if I should come from one end of the Congregation to the other, and ask every one of you this Question, It is your duty to Worship God, Is it not? Yes, that you will all be ready to answer. And what do you do when you Worship God? I fear that this Second Question would gravel many. You will say, We must pray to God, and serve him, and hear his Word, and go to the Communion: yea, but what do your Souls do in this work of worshipping of God? This should be the answer, and so you should think with your selves, and charge this upon your own hearts, I am now going to worship God, either in Prayer, Word, or Sacrament, I am now going to tender up that homage that is due from a creature to the infinite Creator, so that I must so pray, as I must manifest that high respect that I owe to God as my Creator; but that I shall speak to more afterword: only now remember this, That you do profess every time you go to Prayer, That you go to tender up that homage that you owe unto God, and so every time you come to hear the Word, there is a profession that you come to tender up that respect and homage that you owe to the infinite God: And so likewise when you come to receive the Sacrament. Now when we come to offer a present to men, we know how we prepare, and with what suitable presence we desire to offer: but of that afterward when we come to speak of Sanctifying Gods Name.

Hence learn what you do when you come to Worship God and consider of it every time you come to perform any act of Worship. Truly this one thing would be of marveilons use, and it would help forward to the next point of Sanctifying of Gods Name. This you are all convinced of, That it is your duty to Worship God; when you Pray, you come to Worship God, when you come to hear his Word you come to worship him, and when you receive the Sacrament you Worship him. Now if I should come from one end of the Congregation to the other, and ask every one of you this Question, It is your duty to Worship God, Is it not? Yes, that you will all be ready to answer. And what do you do when you Worship God? I fear that this Second Question would gravel many. You will say, We must pray to God, and serve him, and hear his Word, and go to the Communion: yea, but what do your Souls do in this work of worshiping of God? This should be the answer, and so you should think with your selves, and charge this upon your own hearts, I am now going to worship God, either in Prayer, Word, or Sacrament, I am now going to tender up that homage that is due from a creature to the infinit Creator, so that I must so pray, as I must manifest that high respect that I owe to God as my Creator; but that I shall speak to more afterword: only now remember this, That you do profess every time you go to Prayer, That you go to tender up that homage that you owe unto God, and so every time you come to hear the Word, there is a profession that you come to tender up that respect and homage that you owe to the infinite God: And so likewise when you come to receive the Sacrament. Now when we come to offer a present to men, we know how we prepare, and with what sutable presence we desire to offer: but of that afterward when we come to speak of Sanctifying Gods Name.