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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.
For the first, That the hearing of Gods Word, it is a part of Gods Worship. You heard in the opening of the Worship of God in the general, what it was; I told you it was, a tendering ⟨p. 163⟩up of the creatures homage to God, as testimony of the respect that the creature did owe to God; Now if that be the nature of Worship, certainly the hearing of Gods Word it is a part of the Worship of God: for, in the hearing of Gods Word we,
For the first, That the hearing of Gods Word, it is a part of Gods Worship. You heard in the opening of the Worship of God in the general, what it was; I told you it was, a tendring ⟨p. 163⟩up of the creatures homage to God, as testimony of the respect that the creature did owe to God; Now if that be the nature of Worship, certainly the hearing of Gods Word it is a part of the Worship of God: for, in the hearing of Gods Word we,
First, Do profess our dependence upon God for the knowing of his Mind and the way to Eternal Life: Every time we come to hear the Word, if we know what we do, we do thus much, We do profess, that we do depend upon the Lord God for the knowing of his Mind, and the Way and Rule to Eternal Life; we do as much as if we should say, Lord, of our selves we neither know thee, nor the way and means how we should come to be saved, and therefore that we might testify our dependence upon thee for this thing, we here present our selves before thee. Now this is a Testimony of the high respect we owe to God.
First, Do profess our dependance upon God for the knowing of his Mind and the way to Eternal Life: Every time we come to hear the Word, if we know what we do, we do thus much, We do profess, that we do depend upon the Lord God for the knowing of his Mind, and the Way and Rule to Eternal Life; we do as much as if we should say, Lord, of our selves we neither know thee, nor the way and means how we should come to be saved, and therfore that we might testifie our dependance upon thee for this thing, we here present our selves before thee. Now this is a Testimony of the high respect we owe to God.