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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.
2. This Ordinance of the Lords Supper, or the communion it is an Ordinance that Christ hath left to his Church, out of the abundance of his love; and therefore you shall find if you read in the institution of it, in the 25 of Matthew that the same night wherein Christ was betrayed, he took bread and brake it; though Christ was to die the next day, and to encounter with the wrath of God, yea, that very night he was to be in an Agony and to sweat drops of Water and Blood, and the next day to die and to have these trials of wrath powered upon him, so as to put him to cry out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? yet he busies his thoughts that every night to institute this Supper; surely this must be a great Ordinance, & there is a great deal of love of Christ in it. Christ saw that his Church had need of it, that he should that night when he was betrayed have his thoughts busied about such a thing as this is. One would think at that time, that he had enough to take up his thoughts concerning Himself being to encounter with the Law, and with the Wrath of God for mans sin; but for all that great work Christ had to encounter with, yet his thoughts are busied about this great Ordinance of the institution of the Supper, and therefore there was great love in it, Christ saw ⟨p. 229⟩that it was a matter of great moment; Now if it be so, then there is great cause why we should sanctify Gods Name in such an Ordinance as this is, and not to account it as a common and ordinary thing.
2. This Ordinance of the Lords Supper, or the communion it is an Ordinance that Christ hath left to his Church, out of the abundance of his love; and therefore you shall find if you read in the institution of it, in the 25 of Matthew that the same night wherein Christ was betrayed, he took bread and brake it; though Christ was to die the next day, and to encounter with the warth of God, yea, that very night he was to be in an Agony and to sweat drops of Water and Blood, and the next day to die and to have these tryals of wrath powered upon him, so as to put him to cry out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? yet he busies his thoughts that every night to institute this Supper; surely this must be a great Ordinance, & there is a great deal of love of Christ in it. Christ saw that his Church had need of it, that he should that night when he was betrayed have his thoughts busied about such a thing as this is. One would think at that time, that he had enough to take up his thoughts concerning Himself being to encounter with the Law, and with the Wrath of God for mans sin; but for all that great work Christ had to encounter with, yet his thoughts are busied about this great Ordinance of the institution of the Supper, and therfore there was great love in it, Christ saw