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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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5. Fifthly, when the Word works not upon men, it is a dreadful sign of reprobation, If our Gospel be hid (saith the Apostle in 2. Cor. 4. 3) it is hid to those that are lost. It is a dreadful Argument that here is a lost creature, one that God intends no good to. One the Lord works upon, perhaps he lets pass another, one in a family and not in another. Now where it is so that the Word worketh not I say there is no such dreadful brand of Reprobation as this is. It is true, we cannot give any certain sign of Reprobation; therefore I cannot say of any man, he ⟨p. 203⟩hath now such a mark upon him as doth evidently prove that he is a Reprobate; we cannot tell that, because we know not what God may do afterwards, but we may say this, That it is as dreadful a sign as any. There are not any more dreadful signs than these two.
5. Fifthly, when the Word works not upon men, it is a dreadfull sign of reprobation, If our Gospel be hid (saith the Apostle in 2. Cor. 4. 3) it is hid to those that are lost. It is a dreadful Argument that here is a lost creature, one that God intends no good to. One the Lord works upon, perhaps he lets pass another, one in a family and not in another. Now where it is so that the Word worketh not I say there is no such dreadfull brand of Reprobation as this is. It is true, we cannot give any certain sign of Reprobation; therefore I cannot say of any man, he ⟨p. 203⟩hath now such a mark upon him as doth evidently prove that he is a Reprobate; we cannot tell that, because we know not what God may do afterwards, but we may say this, That it is as dreadful a sign as any. There are not any more dreadful signs than these two.
First, For a man to be suffered to prosper in a sinful course; For God to let men go on and have their hearts desire satisfied in an ungodly way.