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

so it is with men of the world, they fill their hearts with the trash of this world, and with sensual delights, and hence it is that when they come to such a great Ordinance to enjoy communion with Jesus Christ, that then they feel no want at all of Christ, only they come and take a little piece of bread and a draught of wine, but for any strong pausing desires to meet with Jesus Christ there in the Ordinance, to come so as they know not how to live without Christ, even as a man that is an hungered cannot live without his meat and drink; and so for the soul to have such a disposition after Christ, this is a rare thing; but know that Gods Name is not sanctified, unless thou doest come in such a way unto his holy Sacrament; that's the fourth thing, hungry and thirsty desires after Christ, from a deep sense of the need of him, and the apprehension of the excellency in him.

so it is with men of the world, they fill their hearts with the trash of this world, and with sensual delights, and hence it is that when they come to such a great Ordinance to enjoy communion with Jesus Christ, that then they feel no want at all of Christ, only they come and take a little piece of bread and a draught of wine, but for any strong pausing desires to meet with Jesus Christ there in the Ordinance, to come so as they know not how to live without Christ, even as a man that is an hungred cannot live without his meat and drink; and so for the soul to have such a disposition after Christ, this is a rare thing; but know that Gods Name is not sanctified, unless thou doest come in such a way unto his holy Sacrament; that's the fourth thing, hungry and thirsty desires after Christ, from a deep sence of the need of him, and the apprehension of the excellency in him.

5. In the fifth place there must be an exercise of faith for the Sanctifying of Gods Name here; Faith that is both the hand and the mouth of the taking of this spiritual meat; and spiritual drink; when thou comest to the Feast of the Lord, Faith first is the eye, and then the hand and mouth; it is the eye of thy soul to give a real sight to what there is here, you are not able to discern the body of the Lord but by the eye of Faith; if thou comest only with bodily eyes to look upon what is here, thou seest nothing but a little Bread and Wine; but now where the eye of Faith is, there is a real appearance of Jesus Christ to the soul, as if Christ were bodily present, and we need not have the bread turned in to his body; for Faith cannot see the body of Christ through the bread, and the blood of Christ gushing in the Wine. And it is a mighty thing to have Christ and such spiritual things made real and not to be a fancy. If one look upon the fire that is painted, one cannot heat ones self in cold weather with that, but fire that is really burning upon the hearth; so those that