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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
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11. Consider the Justice of God, (that's another Attribute) Consider that thou hast to deal with an Infinite, Righteous and Just God: Do not think that if thou beest a Believer, that thou hast nothing to do with the Justice of God, for certainly thou art to sanctify the Justice of God.
11. Consider the Justice of God, (that's another Attribute) Consider that thou hast to deal with an Infinite, Righteous and Just God: Do not think that if thou beest a Beleever, that thou hast nothing to do with the Justice of God, for certainly thou art to sanctifie the Justice of God.
Now you will say, How should a Believer sanctify the Justice of God? Thus:
Now you will say, How should a Beleever sanctifie the Justice of God? Thus:
First, He should be apprehensive and sensible, how by sin he hath put himself under Justice, and deserved the stroke of Justice to be upon him to eternity; he should consider what he is in himself: It's true, that Jesus Christ hath come between a believing soul and the Justice of the Father, and hath taken the stroke of Justice upon himself: yea, but though he hath done it it doth not hinder but that thou shouldst be apprehensive of what thou hast deserved thy self.
First, He should be apprehensive and sensible, how by sin he hath put himself under Justice, and deserved the stroke of Justice to be upon him to eternity; he should consider what he is in himself: It's true, that Jesus Christ hath come between a beleeving soul and the Justice of the Father, and hath taken the stroke of Justice upon himself: yea, but though he hath done it it doth not hinder but that thou shouldst be apprehensive of what thou hast deserved thy self.