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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.
Now first for the word, Sacrament; I confess we have not that word in all the Scripture; as neither have we the word Trinity, and divers other words which Ministers make use of to set forth the Mysteries of Religion by; but yet it is useful to consider the meaning why Ministers in the Church have given this name, unto those sings and seals that the Church receives: Sacrament, is to hallow a thing, or to dedicate, because in the Sacraments there are outward things that are made holy, for holy and spiritual ends.
Now first for the word, Sacrament; I confess we have not that word in all the Scripture; as neither have we the word Trinity, and divers other words which Ministers make use of to set forth the Mysteries of Religion by; but yet it is usefull to consider the meaning why Ministers in the Church have given this name, unto those sings and seals that the Church receives: Sacrament, is to hallow a thing, or to dedicate, because in the Sacraments there are outward things that are made holy, for holy and spirituall ends.
Secondly, We our selves do (as it where) hallow or dedicate our selves unto God in the use of these Ordinances: That one reason from whence it hath the name.
Secondly, We our selves do (as it where) hallow or dedicate our selves unto God in the vse of these Ordinances: That one reason from whence it hath the name.
Or otherwise, as some will have it, Sacramentum because it is to be received sacrament, with a holy mind, and therefore called the Sacrament. The Churches have used it a long time; in Tertullian's time (which was above fourteen hundred years since) he was the first that we find used this word, and most that ⟨p. 622⟩