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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
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4. Fourthly, it is an Argument of extreme hardness of heart not to be wrought upon by the Word. Luk 16. 31, If they here not Moses and the prophets, nether will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead, saith, Abraham. Certainly that man or woman that shall not be wrought upon by the Word so as to sanctify Gods name in it, I say to such, If one should rise from the dead they would not have there hearts wrought upon, and therefore much less are they like to be wrought upon by afflictions. it may be some of you think when you are upon your sick beds then you will repent; no surely, if this that is the great Ordinance to bring men to God shall not work upon you so as God shall be honoured in it; you cannot expect that sickness and affliction should do it, no, if one shall come from the dead to tell you of all the miseries that were there certainly if the Word work not upon you, that will not do it. But you will say, One would think that there should be more power to work upon the heart: truly no, because it is such an Ordinance appointed by God for working such great works upon the hearts and consciences of men, as the Word is: It is true, the Word is but a weak thing in it self, but here lies the strength that it is an Ordinance of God appointed for to work upon the hearts of men; therefore if this work not upon you to give God glory in the hearing of it; there is no other means like to do it.
4. Fourthly, it is an Argument of extream hardness of heart not to be wrought upon by the Word. Luk 16. 31, If they here not Moses and the prophets, nether wil they be perswaded though one rose from the dead, saith, Abraham. Certainly that man or woman that shall not be wrought upon by the Word so as to sanctifie Gods name in it, I say to such, If one should rise from the dead they would not have there hearts wrought upon, and therefore much less are they like to be wrought upon by afflictions. it may be some of you think when you are upon your sick beds then you will repent; no surely, if this that is the great Ordinance to bring men to God shall not work upon you so as God shall be honored in it; you cannot expect that sick ness and affliction should do it, no, if one shall come from the dead to tell you of all the miseries that were there certainly if the Word work not upon you, that will not do it. But you wil say, One would think that there should be more power to work upon the heart: truly no, because it is such an Ordinance appointed by God for working such great works upon the hearts and consciences of men, as the Word is: It is true, the Word is but a weak thing in it self, but here lies the strength that it is an Ordinance of God appointed for to work upon the hearts of men; therefore if this work not upon you to give God glory in the hearing of it; there is no other means like to do it.