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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.
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,
First, If we tender up to God all that we have: Though we be never so poor and mean, yet if God hath the strength of our souls, God accepts it. For we are to know that God doth not stand in need of what we have, or of what we do; but that we might show our respect to Him: Therefore if we give all that we have, God accepts it. As a Child, if it puts forth all its strength that it hath to do a business which the father bids him, whether the business be dove or no, the father looks upon it and accepts it as suitable to the child's strength; and it shows the respect that the child hath to his father. And as it is storied of an Emperor, that when a poor man had nothing to offer him but a little water that he had taken up with his hand, he having nothing else, the Emperor accepts of it. So that's that which God looks for, that the Creature should lift him above ⟨p. 64⟩all. If therefore when thou comes to worship God, God hath more in thy heart than ever any creature in the world had, God accepts of that, and that you must look unto: Can you say so, when you go to worship God? Lord it is true, there is much weakness in my spirit, but thou that knowest all things, knowest, That thou hast more of my heart than ever any creature in the world had. This is suitable to God, God will account this (in the Covenant of Grace) to be a present suitable to Himself. As in the Law, when they offered to the building of the Temple, every one could not offer gold and silver and precious stones, but some came and offered Badgers-skins, and some women did spin and offered Goat-hair to the building of the Temple; and so God accepted of that being the most they could do.
First, If we tender up to God all that we have: Though we be never so poor and mean, yet if God hath the strength of our souls, God accepts it. For we are to know that God doth not stand in need of what we have, or of what we do; but that we might shew our respect to Him: Therefore if we give all that we have, God accepts it. As a Child, if it puts forth all its strength that it hath to do a business which the father bids him, whether the business be doue or no, the father looks upon it and accepts it as sutable to the childs strength; and it shews the respect that the child hath to his father. And as it is storied of an Emperor, that when a poor man had nothing to offer him but a little water that he had taken up with his hand, he having nothing else, the Emperor accepts of it. So that's that which God looks for, that the Creature should lift him above