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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.
Fourthly, When you come to hear the Word, come with longing desires after the Word, come with an appetite to it: As in 1 Pet. 2. 2. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby. Do it as new-born babes. Now you know little babes they do not desire milk to play withal, but only to nourish them: Children of three or four years old, they may desire milk to play with; but new-born babes never care for it but when they are hungry, to nourish them. And so it is true many come to hear the Word to play with it. But now you should come to hear the Word as new-born babes, with a hungering desire after the Word, that your souls may be nourished thereby. That were excellent, if every Lords day, and at other days you ⟨p. 171⟩did come as hungry to the Word, as ever you went to your dinner or supper, the Word of God should be unto you more than your appointed food, and then you are like to grow by it, and to sanctify Gods Name in it.
Fourthly, When you come to hear the Word, come with longing desires after the Word, come with an appitite to it: As in 1 Pet. 2. 2. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby. Do it as new-born babes. Now you know little babes they do not desire milk to play withal, but only to nourish them: Children of three or four yeers old, they may desire milk to play with; but new-born babes never care for it but when they are hungry, to nourish them. And so it is true many come to hear the Word to play with it. But now you should come to hear the Word as new-born babes, with a hungring desire after the Word, that your souls may be nourished therby. That were excellent, if every Lords day, and at other daies you ⟨p. 171⟩did come as hungry to the Word, as ever you went to your dinner or supper, the Word of God should be unto you more than your appointed food, and then you are like to grow by it, and to sanctifie Gods Name in it.