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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.
2. Secondly, We must sanctify God in the duties of His Worship, because it is the special glory that God hath in the world, to be actively honoured; for his passive glory, that is, to be glorified in a passive way, that he hath in Hell, but the special glory that God would have, it is, that he might be glorified actively: Now there is no such way of glorifying the Name of God actively, as by worshipping of him in a holy manner, and therefore God stands much upon this, That when we come to worship him we sanctify his Name; for saith God, If I be not sanctified in my Worship, what active glory have I in the world? it is the special active Glory that God hath in the world, the sanctifying of his Name in the duties of his Worship.
2. Secondly, We must sanctifie God in the duties of His Worship, because it is the special glory that God hath in the world, to be actively honored; for his passive glory, that is, to be glorified in a passive way, that he hath in Hell, but the special glory that God would have, it is, that he might be glorified actively: Now there is no such way of glorifying the Name of God actively, as by worshiping of him in a holy manner, and therefore God stands much upon this, That when we come to worship him we sanctifie his Name; for saith God, If I be not sanctified in my Worship, what active glory have I in the world? it is the special active Glory that God hath in the world, the sanctifying of his Name in the duties of his Worship.
3. Thirdly, That which we have intimated before, That the duties of Gods Worship are the most precious things, the special conveyances of the choice mercies that he intends to bestow on his Saints, and therefore though he loses his Glory in any thing else, he would not lose it in that wherein he doth especially convey his mercy and goodness to his people. But that we spake too in showing how we draw nigh to God in holy duties, and it may well come in here again as an Argument why we should sanctify Gods Name.
3. Thirdly, That which we have intimated before, That the duties of Gods Worship are the most precious things, the special conveyances of the choice mercies that he intends to bestow on his Saints, and therefore though he loses his Glory in any thing else, he would not lose it in that wherein he doth especially convey his mercy and goodness to his people. But that we spake too in shewing how we draw nigh to God in holy duties, and it may well come in here again as an Argument why we should sanctifie Gods Name.