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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.
If a Prophet should come and speak, that is not so much as if the Son of God comes, no, nor as if an Angel should come, for Jesus Christ hath obtained a more excellent Name than the Angels, & it is Christ that is the Ministry of his Word, He that heareth you, heareth me.
Secondly, That which would cause attention, is the greatness of the matter propounded: It's true, if a man should speak of some slight and vain things, there need not so much attention. My brethren, the matters in the Word are the great Things of God, it is the Voice of God, the great Mysteries of Godliness, those deep things that the Angels themselves desire to pry into; yea, the Angels themselves by the Churches they come to have the knowledge of the Mysteries of God. I make no question but in the Ministry of the Word among the Churches, the Angels they attend and come to some knowledge in the Mysteries of Godliness; for so the Scripture saith, That they have it by the Churches, there the greatest things of Gods Will, the greatest Counsels of God that were kept hid from all eternity, are opened to you in the Ministry of the Word: We do not come to tell you tales, and the conceits of men, but to open the great Counsels ⟨p. 174⟩of God, wherein the depth of the Wisdom of God comes to be revealed to the children of men, and therefore this calls for attention.
Secondly, That which would cause attention, is the greatness of the matter propounded: It's true, if a man should speak of some slight and vain things, there need not so much attention. My brethern, the matters in the Word are the great Things of God, it is the Voice of God, the great Mysteries of Godliness, those deep things that the Angels themselves desire to pry into; yea, the Angels themselves by the Churches they come to have the knowledge of the Mysteries of God. I make no question but in the Ministery of the Word among the Churches, the Angels they attend and come to some knowledge in the Mysteries of Godliness; for so the Scripture saith, That they have it by the Churches, there the greatest things of Gods Will, the greatest Counsels of God that were kept hid from all eternity, are opened to you in the Ministry of the Word: We do not come to tel you tales, and the conceits of men, but to open the great Counsels