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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.
10. A tenth particular is this, If we will sanctify Gods Name ⟨p. 190⟩in the Word, we must hide the Word in our hearts, we must not only hear the Word, but keep it, preserve it, and then we do declare that we account the Word of God to be worth something indeed; For, what is it to sanctify God (as we have opened before in the General) but such a behaviour towards him, as may testify the Excellency of the Name of God so the behaviour of the soul in hearing the Word, must be such as must give a testimony to the Excellency of the Word, and manifest the high esteem I have of it. Now if I received a thing that is of great value, if I slight it, and let any body take it from me, I do not give a testimony of the excellency of that thing; but if I take it and lock it up, and keep it under lock and key, I do thereby give a testimony of the esteem that I have of the excellency of that thing: So now, when I come to hear the Word, and meet with Truths that I have gotten into my soul, I close with them, and am resolved within my heart as I am hearing of them, well, This Truth I will keep through Gods Grace, this concerns me, and I will make much of it, and although I forget other things, yet I hope I shall remember this, To sanctify Gods Name in hearing of the Word: In Isa. 42. 23. Hear (saith the holy Ghost there) for the time to come. When we come to the Word, we must not only hearken for the present, as many of us while we are hearing, our hearts are stirred for the present; Oh that we could but have that affection of heart always, as we have when we are hearing of the Word! How many of you have said when you have been hearing such a Sermon, Oh! then me thought I could have gone through fire and water for God? I, but mark it, you must hear for afterwards. And in Psalm 119. 11. there the Prophet David profest, That he did hide the Word in his heart, the Word was sweet unto him; Thy Word (saith he) have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee. You that come and hear those Truths upon the Lords day, if you would hide them thus in your hearts, and keep them all the week, they would help you against the many temptations that you meet withal; you go abroad on the week days into company, and there you meet with a temptation, and it overcomes you, and you complain, Alas! I am weak, I have met with a temptation and it hath foiled me: