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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 there is something further to be spoken that may help you to sanctify Gods Name in holy duties, and that is, Several ⟨p. 93⟩workings of heart, suitable to the several Attributes of God, for that is to sanctify Gods Name, to have the duty to be such as is some way suitable to such a God as we are now worshipping. Now then let us consider what the Scripture saith of God, and then let us see what suitable dispositions we should have in us unto those things that the Scripture saith of God:
But there is something further to be spoken that may help you to sanctifie Gods Name in holy duties, and that is, Several ⟨p. 93⟩workings of heart, sutable to the several Attributes of God, for that is to sanctifie Gods Name, to have the duty to be such as is some way sutable to such a God as we are now worshiping. Now then let us consider what the Scripture saith of God, and then let us see what sutable dispositions we should have in us unto those things that the Scripture saith of God:
1. First, You know the Scripture saith, that God is a Spirit, in Joh. 4. 24. Then presently Christ saith, That he that worships him, must worship him in Spirit; that is, there must be a suitableness in our worship to what God is: Is God a Spirit? then all that worship him, must worship him in Spirit and Truth; that is thus, When I am to go to worship God, I must consider of him, as he is an infinite and glorious Spirit; well then, surely bodily worship is not sufficient for me: Though I do kneel down in prayer, or do come and present my body to hear the Word, or my body to receive the Sacrament, this is not to worship God as a Spirit: If indeed that our God were as the Heathens, that were corporeal, then it were another matter, then bodily worship would serve the turn; but God being a Spirit, he must have Spiritual Worship, therefore my soul, and all that is within me, magnify his Name: saith David, my Soul magnify his Name, not my lips only, but my soul: The Apostle in