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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.
but if you were to tender up a present to a Prince, a Monarch, an Emperor, then you must tender a present that is fit for the quality of the prison. Therefore in Malachi, 1. 8. When the Lord rebukes them for their sacrifices that they were such poor things: Go (saith God) and tender up this to your Governor, and see whether he will accept of it or no. So certainly that which may be accepted of by a mean man, would be accounted a scorn if you should tender it up to a Prince, or an Emperor. Now when we come to worship God, we must consider that we are to tender up our service to God, who is the great King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. But you will say, Is it possible for any creature which comes to tender up its worship to God, to tender up that which is fit for a God to have? This may rather be a discouragement unto prayer, or any other duty of worship than an encouragement.
but if you were to tender up a present to a Prince, a Monarch, an Emperor, then you must tender a present that is fit for the quality of the preson. Therefore in Malachi, 1. 8. When the Lord rebukes them for their sacrifices that they were such poor things: Go (saith God) and tender up this to your Governor, and see whether he will accept of it or no. So certainly that which may be accepted of by a mean man, would be accounted a scorn if you should tender it up to a Prince, or an Emperor. Now when we come to worship God, we must consider that we are to tender up our service to God, who is the great King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. But you will say, Is it possible for any creature which comes to tender up its worship to God, to tender up that which is fit for a God to have? This may rather be a discouragement unto prayer, or any other duty of worship than an encouragment.
To that I answer thus, Though we be very poor and mean, yet it doth not hinder, but we may tender up that to God which God will acknowledge to be suitable to his infinite excellency: as,
To that I answer thus, Though we be very poor and mean, yet it doth not hinder, but we may tender up that to God which God will acknowledg to be sutable to his infinite excellency: as,