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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.
Secondly, Consider this, That there is no duty in all the book of God that I know of, that is urged with more strength and severity than this is; as in that place 1 Cor. 11. showeth, where you have required of every one that comes to receive the Bread and Wine in the Lords Supper, That they should examine themselves and so eat; and you have the most dreadful expressions against those that do not do it, that I know are mentioned against the neglect of any duty in all the book of God; there the holy Ghost faith, That whosoever eats and drinks unworthily, First, he is guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ; and then Secondly, he eats and drink• his own damnation: These two expressions have as much dreadfulness in them as can be imagined, and we do not find an exhortation to a duty backed with two such severe expressions (in case we should neglect our duty) as this ⟨p. 230⟩exhortation. What if we do not sanctify Gods Name in this duty? we come to be guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ. Blood guiltiness is a terrible thing; you know David cries out, Lord, deliver me from blood guiltiness; to have but the Blood of an ordinary man to lie upon one, to shed the blood of the vilest Rogue that lives in a murderous way, it would lie upon the conscience and be very terrible; it is impossible that such a man can be quiet all his days, though he hath never such a seared conscience: An Heathen could not be at quiet if he hath the guilt of Blood lie upon him, but to be guilty of the blood of Christ, whose blood is ten thousand thousand times more worth than the blood of all the men that ever lived upon the face of the earth must needs be a most dreadful thing; It is a fearful expression, Guilty of the body and blood of Christ, that is, he offers such an indignity to the body and blood of Christ, as the Lord will charge him of being guilty of it, guilty of abusing the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Secondly, Consider this, That there is no duty in al the book of God that I know of, that is urged with more strength and severity than this is; as in that place 1 Cor. 11. sheweth, where you have required of every one that comes to receive the Bread and Wine in the Lords Supper, That they should examine themselves and so eat; and you have the most dreadful expressions against those that do not do it, that I know are mentioned against the neglect of any duty in all the book of God; there the holy Ghost faith, That whosoever eats and drinks unworthily, First, he is guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ; and then Secondly, he eats and drink his own dmnation: These two expressions have as much dreadfulness in them as can be imagined, and we do not find an exhortation to a duty backt with two such severe expressions (in case we should neglect our duty) as this