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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.
and therefore when you see any that have made profession of Religion, that had excellent Parts at first, many common gifts, and now are as we say, no body; Remember this Text, That God will be sanctified in those that come nigh Him.
Secondly, The Lord doth manifest that he will be sanctified in those that draw nigh him, by awaking their consciences many times upon their sick beds and death beds, the Lord doth force them to give glory to Him, and there to acknowledge that they did not worship God in Uprightness but in Formality. And now they are in horror of conscience and cry out in the anguish of their souls upon the apprehension of the dreadful wrath of God that is upon them: Take heed for the Lords sake of this thing, when you are performing of the duties of Worship, do not rest in the outward duties for they will never comfort you upon your sick and death beds, you may perhaps put off your consciences a little for the present, but when you come upon your sick beds there will be no comfort unto you, and then you will be forced to say, well, all this while I have but taken the Name of God in vain, and now God hath rejected me and all my services; and you will then speak to those that come about your beds side, and bid them take warning by you: take heed that when you worship God you worship him to purpose, I have spent time in prayer, and hearing; but for want of this I find I have no comfort at all, but the Lord appears to be terrible to my soul and comes out against me as an enemy. I say now Gods Name is sanctified: whatever becomes of thee, he will force glory from thee one way or other, and it may be even here in this time of thy life; but however, at the great day, when the secrets of all hearts must be disclosed before Men and Angles, then the Lord will appear to be a holy God by rejecting all such services that thou diddest tender up to him, and it will then be a great part of the work of the day of Judgment for God to be sanctified in those that did worship him; by declaring ⟨p. 119⟩before Men and Angels, how did he reject such formal and hypocritical worship that they did tender up unto him, Oh that God would strike this upon your hearts that it may abide upon you every time you come to worship him, to think thus, Let me look to it to sanctify his Name now, for I hear that God will sanctify it himself if I do not do it.