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Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…
Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumes lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumns lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1653
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.
Well, you will say, seeing there lies so much in it, I pray open it wherein it doth consist. To that I answer, It consists in these Five things, which I shall briefly name.
First, In the possessing the heart with the right apprehension of that God before whom we come to tender our duties. Then do we make conscience to prepare our hearts, when we labour upon our going to worship God, to get our hearts before-hand possessed with right apprehensions of the Majesty of that God that we are going to worship, and of the greatness and weight of the duty that we are setting about, the nature of it, the manner how it is to be performed, the rule by which we are to be guided, the end that we are to aim at: Meditation is a good preparation to holy duties. And these are the general Heads of our Meditation for our Preparation to Duty. Viz.
First, In the possessing the heart with the right apprehension of that God before whom we come to tender our duties. Then do we make conscience to prepare our hearts, when we labor upon our going to worship God, to get our hearts before-hand possessed with right apprehensions of the Majesty of that God that we are going to worship, and of the greatness and weight of the duty that we are setting about, the nature of it, the manner how it is to be performed, the rule by which we are to be guided, the end that we are to aim at: Meditation is a good preparation to holy duties. And these are the general Heads of our Meditation for our Preparation to Duty. Viz.
1. What God he is we have to deal with. Meditate of God in his Attributes, and then meditate of the weight of our Duties, and the nature of them, and the rule of them, and the end of them; get your hearts possessed with meditations of this nature; and in this, at a special thing, doth consist your preparation to holy duties.