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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.
6. In the next place: Surely there can be nothing sanctified to thee who doest not sanctify Gods Name in His Word. The Scripture saith, That every thing is sanctified by the Word and Prayer. And how canst thou expect that the Word should sanctify any thing unto thee, seeing that thou doest not make conscience of sanctifying Gods Name in the Word? The godly think thus, 'Tis the Word that must sanctify all things to my soul, and I had need then sanctify Gods Name in that from which I expect the sanctified use of all blessings. You therefore that can sit under it, and make not conscience of sanctifying Gods Name in it, I say, you can expect no sanctified use of any thing that you have in this world.
6. In the next place: Surely there can be nothing sanctified to thee who doest not sanctifie Gods Name in His Word. The Scripture saith, That every thing is sanctified by the Word and Prayer. And how canst thou exspect that the Word should sanctifie any thing unto thee, seeing that thou doest not make conscience of sanctifying Gods Name in the Word? The godly think thus, 'Tis the Word that must sanctifie all things to my soul, and I had need then sanctifie Gods Name in that from which I exspect the sanctified use of all blessings. You therefore that can sit under it, and make not concience of sanctifying Gods Name in it, I say, you can expect no sanctified use of any thing that you have in this world.
7. Such as do not sanctify Gods Name in the Word, are very nigh to a curse: There is a notable Scripture for this in Heb. 6. 7, 8. where the Apostle compares the Word to the rain that falls upon the ground, For the earth that drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But (saith he) that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. The meaning is this plainly, The rain here is the Word, & the good hearers they are like the ground that receive the rain and bring forth fruit, and receive a blessing: But now ill hearers