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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.
there they did keep many days in seeking of God, (it is an observable Scripture for these times) Speak unto all the People of the Land, and to the Priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years; Did ye at all fast unto me? even unto me? Mark the phrase, You fasted in the fifth and seventh month, and for seventy years together, but saith the Lord, Did you at all fast unto me? and then mark how he doubled it, To me? even unto me? Noting that when we fast or pray, or do any thing in the Worship of God, we should be sure to aim at God more than our selves, that God may not say of us another day, Do you do it to me, even to me?
there they did keep many daies in seeking of God, (it is an observable Scripture for these times) Speak unto all the People of the Land, and to the Priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years; Did ye at all fast unto me? even unto me? Mark the phrase, You fasted in the fifth and seventh month, and for seventy yeers together, but saith the Lord, Did you at all fast unto me? and then mark how he doubled it, To me? even unto me? Noting that when we fast or pray, or do any thing in the Worship of God, we should be sure to aim at God more than our selves, that God may not say of us another day, Do you do it to me, even to me?
You may ask me this Question, How may I know that I am acted by self-ends in holy Duties? for it is a hard thing for one to know ones own heart, when one is acted by principles of self, and when we aim at God in holy Duties. Now for that I will give you these Notes, to try whether you be acted from your selves or no.
The First is this, If a man loves holy Duties, though he finds no present good comes in by them, because they are such things as God requires, and therefore though I get nothing by them, yet this is enough to carry me on, and to carry me on readily, and willingly in the Worship of God: those that can delight in Gods Worship, even at that time, though they find nothing coming in to themselves: But now when we find not that coming in that we do desire, we begin to be weary of Worship, and say, Why have we fasted, and thou seest it not? This