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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.
latter end, They shall look on him whom they have pierced by their Sins, and then mourn and lament: This eye of Faith will cause mourning and lamenting for Sin.
And then, As Faith is the eye to make what is here real, so Faith is the hand to take it: When you come to a feast, you must have something to take the meat to you: so saith Christ, he brake bread, and gave it unto his Disciples, saying, Take, eat this. Take it; how shall we take it? By reaching out of the hand; if you sanctify Gods Name in this Ordinance, as you reach out your hand to take the Bread and Wine, so there must be an actual reaching out of the soul by Faith, putting forth an act of Faith to receive Jesus Christ unto the soul, to apply the Lord Jesus Christ unto thy soul with all his merits and good things that he hath purchased; when the Minister doth give out that Ordinance, […] should look upon God the Father giving out his Son; as if this were your condition I am now in the presence of the eternal Father, who now doth actually give out ⟨p. 254⟩his Son to my soul; and saith Soul, here receive a new this day, my Son with all that he hath purchased for thy good; now then the soul acts upon this, and by stirring up an act of faith, comes and closes with this gift of the Father and casts its self upon Jesus Christ, and saith as it were, Amen: to what the Father gives, Oh Lord, here I come and embrace thy Son as my life, as my Saviour, as the Fountain of all my good, in whom I expect all the good I am like to have either here or to all eternity; so that there must be a stirring up of the act of faith in an actual taking of Christ, if thou beest a Believer; Canst thou remember what thou didst, when first thou didst take Jesus Christ; when the Lord in the preaching of His word did reveal Jesus Christ to my soul, what didst thou then, Oh soul; how did thy soul work in closing with Christ; as thy soul did then in closing with Christ, so it must now renew the work; there must be a renewal of the work at that time. So that when you come to the Sacrament, you must not think that it is then a time to listen to doubts, fears, and Scruples; no, but it is a time that God calls for the exercise of faith, the casting of the soul upon Christ, and His merits for life and for salvation, or else the Name of God is not sanctified as it ought; thou doest not Sanctify Gods Name, when thou art busying thy soul in doubts and scruples in thy receiving of the Sacrament.