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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.
The meaning is nothing else but this, The work of humiliation, the humbling of the soul before the Lord when it doth come to hear Gods Word.
Humble it in these two regards.
First, Be humbled for your Ignorance, that you know so little of Gods Mind as you do.
Secondly, Be humbled for all the sinfulness of your hearts, be sensible of the sinfulness and wretchedness of your hearts, and the miserable condition that you are in; if you can get your hearts broken with the sense of your sin and misery, and come so to hear the Word, it is very like the Word may be of mighty use, and Gods Name may be very much sanctified in your hearing of the Word.
Secondly, Be humbled for all the sinfulness of your hearts, be sensible of the sinfulness and wretchedness of your hearts, and the miserable condition that you are in; if you can get your hearts broken with the sence of your sin and misery, and come so to hear the Word, it is very like the Word may be of mighty use, and Gods Name may be very much sanctified in your hearing of the Word.