Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…

Because you do never find that God did set that apart as an Ordinance: an institution appointed to that end that they should come to look upon that for the breaking of there hearts; there was indeed a naturalness in it; that if they did behold Christ, it might break there hearts, but it was not such an Ordinance it was not a Sacrament as this is; now this being in a Sacramental way in the use of an Ordinance appointed by Jesus Christ to set forth his sufferings, and all the riches of the Covenant of grace to the soul, there may be expected here a further blessing than in the other, though it's true the other might work mightily upon the heart but yet this being a great ordinance of Christ in the Church, a great institution of Jesus Christ for the setting out of his sufferings, it hath a more special blessing that goes along with it; every Ordinance hath a promise, and a more special blessing than any other thing that is not an Ordinance. So when you come here to behold Christ crucified before you, you cannot see Christ naturally crucified as upon the Cross: but you have Christ crucified before you in the way of a Sacrament, in the way of a solemn institution of Jesus Christ, that hath a special blessing which goes along with it; therefore if the heart be not broken here, there is an aggravation of the hardness of the heart as great as if we should behold Jesus Christ upon the Cross and our hearts not broken there; and indeed this is a special reason why those are said to be guilty of the body and blood of Christ that receive unworthily; as if a man had been then alive and had been before the Cross; and there have seen how the blood of Jesus Christ, was shed for sin, and should not have been affected with it, but should have accounted it as a common thing, this man in some regard might have been said to be guilty of His death; that is, to have joined and consented with those that […] crucify Him; for if a man sees another commit a sin, if he […] ⟨p. 249⟩affected with that sin, and it does not stir his heart, he may come to be partaker of his sin; so that those that come to see Jesus Christ crucified, and have not their hearts at all stirred with the crucifying of Christ, they are in some regard truly said to be guilty of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ; And that's the second thing, brokenness of spirit is suitable to the light of a broken Christ.

Because you do never find that God did set that apart as an Ordinance: an institution appointed to that end that they should come to look upon that for the breaking of there hearts; there was indeed a naturalness in it; that if they did behold Christ, it might break there hearts, but it was not such an Ordinance it was not a Sacrament as this is; now this being in a Sacramental way in the use of an Ordinance appointed by Jesus Christ to set forth his sufferings, and al the riches of the Covenant of grace to the soul, there may be expected here a further blessing than in the other, though it's true the other might work mightily upon the heart but yet this being a great ordinance of Christ in the Church, a great institution of Jesus Christ for the setting out of his sufferings, it hath a more special blessing that goes along with it; every Ordinance hath a promise, and a more special blessing than any other thing that is not an Ordinance. So when you come here to behold Christ crucified before you, you cannot see Christ naturally crucified as upon the Cross: but you have Christ crucified before you in the way of a Sacrament, in the way of a solemn institution of Jesus Christ, that hath a special blessing which goes along with it; therfore if the heart be not broken here, there is an aggravation of the hardness of the heart as great as if we should behold Jesus Christ upon the Cross and our hearts not broken there; and indeed this is a special reason why those are said to be guilty of the body and blood of Christ that receive unworthily; as if a man had been then alive and had been before the Cross; and there have seen how the blood of Jesus Christ, was shed for sin, and should not have been affected with it, but should have accounted it as a common thing, this man in some regard might have been said to be guilty of His death; that is, to have joyned and consented with those that crucifie Him; for if a man sees another commit a sin, if he