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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.
SERMON XII.
Leviticus, 10. 3. I will be Sanctified in them that come nigh me.
I Shall ad somthing to one particular, that I had the last day, concerning Peoples withdrawing from such a Congregation where they could not receive all the Ordinance of Jesus Christ.
As now, If I were in a Church where I could have but a piece of the Sacrament, suppose they deal with me as the papists do with the people that is, they will give them the Bread and not the Wine, Certainly I were not bound to stay with them then, but I were bound to go where I might have the whole Sacrament. So if a Church will give me some one Ordinance and not another, I confess so long as there is hope that I may enjoy it, and that they are in a ⟨p. 243⟩way for enjoyment, I think there should be a great forbearance to a Church as well as to a particular person; as I must not withdraw from a particular man, where there is hope still of his reformation, that there may come good of my forbearance, so towards a Church much more; but I say, if I cannot enjoy neither doth there appear any hope of enjoyment of all Ordinances, certainly it were but a cruelty to force men to stay there, when as otherwhere they may enjoy all Ordinances for the good of there souls. And this cannot be schism thus to do; As now if this schism? Suppose a man were in a place and joined in such a Communion, for his outward benefit he may remove his dwelling from one place to another if he can have better trading in another place; than certainly if he may have more Ordinance for the edification of his soul; he may as well remove from one to another, as he may remove if his trading be better in one place than another. Christ would have all his people look to the edification of there souls; and should I account that schism, when a man or woman merely out of tenderness and a desire to enjoy Jesus Christ in all his Ordinances for the benefit of there souls,, they find such want to there souls of all Ordinances, that though they may have some in one place, yet if they cannot have all, their souls do not so thrive; now if this be all the end why they remove, that they might have more edification to their souls, enjoying the Ordinances of Christ more fully, God forbid that this should ever be accounted such a sin, that the Scripture is to brand; no that's schism when there is a violent rending out of malice, for the want of love; for as a postasie is a rending from the head, so schism from the body, that is, when it is out of an evil spirit, from envy, or from malice, from want of love, or from any base sinister ends, and upon no Just Ground;