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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.
Surely this is the ground of it, That they did not sanctify Gods Name in holy Duties, at the most it was but a work of conscience that put them upon them, and they had but some flashes, there was no real Sanctification ⟨p. 107⟩of their hearts whereby they did sanctify the Name of God in holy duties, and upon this it is that they have left off. This I dare say, That there was never any soul that did know what it was to sanctify Gods Name in worship, that ever was weary of worshipping God.
Surely this is the ground of it, That they did not sanctifie Gods Name in holy Duties, at the most it was but a work of conscience that put them upon them, and they had but some flashes, there was no real Sanctification ⟨p. 107⟩of their hearts whereby they did sanctifie the Name of God in holy duties, and upon this it is that they have left off. This I dare say, That there was never any soul that did know what it was to sanctifie Gods Name in worship, that ever was weary of worshiping God.
It may be some of you may say, We have hard that there is much required in sanctifying Gods Name in duties, and that is the only way to weary the soul, and to make it fall off; Oh no, (as we said the last day) there is not any one thing that hath been opened for the sanctifying of Gods Name in duties that any gracious heart can tell how to miss, and the more we do sanctify His Name, the more we shall be in love with worship. For it is from hence that those that sanctify Gods Name in worship will hold out, because they will find the sweetness of worship, they will meet with God in holy duties, and so they come to be encouraged in worship, but as for others who do worship God in a formal way, their worship will prove to be tedious to them, for they perform the duties, but do not find God in the duties in that spiritual way as the Saints do; If they think they meet with God, it is but an imagination rather than any real meeting with him; they do not find the influence of God in their souls in holy duties, so as those do that sanctify Gods Name in holy duties; here then you see the Reasons why we are to sanctify Gods Name in holy duties.