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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.
Where there come a poor man into the Church of God, and hears Prophesying, hears the word opened and the text saith, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all; and then in vers. 25. Thus are the secrets of his heart manifest, and so falling down on his face he worships God, and reports that God is in you of a truth: That is, when the word comes ⟨p. 177⟩and meets with his soul in particular, that he finds himself to be aimed at by the Word, then he worships God, and saith that God certainly is in them. Here's the reason now that when you come to hear the Word, you do not worship God because you apply it not to your selves, you are ready to say, This was well spoken to such a one, and it concerns such a one, but how doth it concern thy soul in particular? Sometimes the Lord doth even force men and women to apply it whether they will or no, for that they think the Minister speaks to them in particular, and that no body was spoken too in the Congregation but themselves; This is a mercy when the Lord doth it unto you; but it is a greater mercy when the Lord gives you a heart to apply to your selves, and although it may trouble you a little for the present, yet be willing to apply it, and account it a great mercy from the Lord, That the Lord will be pleased to speak in particular to your souls.
Where there come a poor man into the Church of God, and hears Prophesying, hears the word opened and the text saith, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all; and then in vers. 25. Thus are the secrets of his heart manifest, and so falling down on his face he worships God, and reports that God is in you of a truth: That is, when the word comes ⟨p. 177⟩and meets with his soul in particular, that he finds himself to be aim'd at by the Word, then he worships God, and saith that God certainly is in them. Here's the reason now that when you come to hear the Word, you do not worship God because you apply it not to your selves, you are ready to say, This was well spoken to such a one, and it concerns such a one, but how doth it concern thy soul in particular? Sometimes the Lord doth even force men and women to apply it whether they will or no, for that they think the Minister speaks to them in partiticular, and that no body was spoken too in the Congregation but themselves; This is a mercy when the Lord doth it unto you; but it is a greater mercy when the Lord gives you a heart to apply to your selves, and although it may trouble you a little for the present, yet be willing to apply it, and account it a great mercy from the Lord, That the Lord will be pleased to speak in particular to your souls.