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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.
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.
2. The Second thing wherein the preparation to a duty consists, it is this, The taking off of the heart from every sinful way, (the endeavour at least) If there be iniquity in thine hand or heart, labour to put it out: When thou art to come into God• presence, do not bring into the presence of God the love of any sin in thy heart, but labour to put it from thy heart: in 2 Chron. 29. 5. we find there what is required to preparation; the text saith, Hezekiah said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites sanctify now your selves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. That is sanctifying a thing, to carry forth the filthiness out of that thing that we would sanctify: So the sanctifying of our hearts it is, by carrying forth the filthiness out of our hearts, so as to be fit for a duty. And in Job. 11. 13, 14. If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hand towards him: (What then?) If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. These Two must be together.
2. The Second thing wherein the preparation to a duty consists, it is this, The taking off of the heart from every sinful way, (the endeavor at least) If there be iniquity in thine hand or heart, labor to put it out: When thou art to come into God• presence, do not bring into the presence of God the love of any sin in thy heart, but labor to put it from thy heart: in