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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.
3. A Third thing is this, The preparation of the heart it is, The dis-entangling of the heart from the world, and from all occasions and businesses in the world. I am to worship God, but how is my heart ensnared and entangled in this and the other ⟨p. 50⟩business; Now when I come to worship God I must lay aside all, for there's the preparation of the heart, the separating of it for such a work, for that's the nature of Sanctification, the separating of a thing from a common use; I am to worship God, now I must labour to separate my heart from a common use: At other times God gives me liberty to let out my heart to common uses; but now when I come to worship him, I must separate my heart from all common uses, that my heart may be wholly for God. I remember it is said in the story of Cicil which was Lord Treasurer, that when he went to read, he would lay his gown off and say, Lie there Lord Cicil: So when we go to duty, we should say, Lie by world: (and by laying aside the world I mean, laying aside of all household affairs, or affairs in trading, &c.) I must be as one that hath nothing to do in the world for that time: It is true, the time cannot be said to be holy for this, as the time of the Sabbath day is holy.
3. A Third thing is this, The preparation of the heart it is, The dis-intangling of the heart from the world, and from all occasions and businesses in the world. I am to worship God, but how is my heart insnared and intangled in this and the othere ⟨p. 50⟩business; Now when I come to worship God I must lay aside all, for there's the preparation of the heart, the separating of it for such a work, for that's the nature of Sanctification, the separating of a thing from a common use; I am to worship God, now I must labor to separate my heart from a common use: At other times God gives me liberty to let out my heart to common uses; but now when I come to worship him, I must separate my heart from all common uses, that my heart may be wholly for God. I remember it is said in the story of Cicil which was Lord Treasurer, that when he went to read, he would lay his gown off and say, Lie there Lord Cicil: So when we go to duty, we should say, Lie by world: (and by laying aside the world I mean, laying aside of all houshold affairs, or affairs in trading, &c.) I must be as one that hath nothing to do in the world for that time: It is true, the time cannot be said to be holy for this, as the time of the Sabbath day is holy.