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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.
As first, there is required Knowledge; I must know what I do when I come to receive this holy Sacrament; knowledge applied to the work that I am about, When some of you have come to receive this Sacrament, if God would have spoken from Heaven and have said thus to you, what are you doing now? what do you go for? What account had you been able to have given unto him? You must understand what you do when you come thither.
As first, there is required Knowledg; I must know what I do when I come to receive this holy Sacrament; knowledg applyed to the work that I am about, When some of you have come to receive this Sacrament, if God would have spoken from Heaven and have said thus to you, what are you doing now? what do you go for? What account had you been able to have given unto him? You must understand what you do when you come thither.
First You must be able to give this account to God, Lord, I am now going to have represented to me in a visible and sensible way the greatest Mysteries of Godliness, those great and deep Counsels of my Will concerning my eternal estate, those great Things that Angels desire to pry into, that shall be the matter of eternal praises of Angels and Saints in the highest Heavens that they may be set before my view; Lord, when I have come to thy Word, I have had sounding in mine ears the great Mysteries of Godliness, the great Things of the Covenant of Grace, and now I go to see them represented before mine eyes in that Ordinance of thine that thou hast appointed.
First You must be able to give this account to God, Lord, I am now going to have represented to me in a visible and sensible way the greatest Mysteries of Godlines, those great and deep Counsels of my Will concerning my eternal estate, those great Things that Angels desire to pry into, that shall be the matter of eternal praises of Angels and Saints in the highest Heavens that they may be set before my view; Lord, when I have come to thy Word, I have had sounding in mine ears the great Mysteries of Godliness, the great Things of the Covenant of Grace, and now I go to see them represented before mine eyes in that Ordinance of thine that thou hast appointed.