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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.
And then faith is as the mouth; when thou comest to eat and drink, how canst thou if thou hast not a mouth; thou hast a bodily mouth to take in Bread and Wine; but know that without faith thy soul cannot take in Christ; faith is as it were the mouth; that is, by the act of faith the soul doth open it self for Jesus Christ, and not only opens it self, but takes in Christ, to the soul, and makes Christ and the soul as one, as our Bread and Wine is made one with our Body, so faith takes in Christ, and makes him as one with thee, and turns Christ into the nourishment of thy soul, and thou and Christ by faith are made as truly one, as the Bread and Wine that is put into thy Body, is made one with thy body. This is the work of faith, without which we cannot Sanctify the Name of God.
And then faith is as the mouth; when thou comest to eat and drink, how canst thou if thou hast not a mouth; thou hast a bodily mouth to take in Bread and Wine; but know that without faith thy soul cannot take in Christ; faith is as it were the mouth; that is, by the act of faith the soul doth open it self for Jesus Christ, and not only opens it self, but takes in Christ, to the soul, and makes Christ and the soul as one, as our Bread and Wine is made one with our Body, so faith takes in Christ, and makes him as one with thee, and turns Christ into the nourishment of thy soul, and thou and Christ by faith are made as truly one, as the Bread and Wine that is put into thy Body, is made one with thy body. This is the work of faith, without which we cannot Sanctifie the Name of God.
Sixthly, There must be spiritual Joy; that must be exercised here; for it is a feast; here we come to sit with Christ at his Table, we come as Children to our fathers Table, and to sit there with Jesus Christ our Elder Brother; now as a father doth not love to have his child sit in a sullen and dogged way at his Table, or to be crying, but he would have the child sit in comfort and with a holy cheerfulness with a holy freedom of spirit; not in a sullen way, but as a child in the presence of his father, and not as a servant with the master.
Sixthly, There must be spiritual Joy; that must be exercised here; for it is a feast; here we come to sit with Christ at his Table, we come as Children to our fathers Table, and to sit there with Jesus Christ our Elder Brother; now as a father doth not love to have his child sit in a sullen and dogged way at his Table, or to be crying, but he would have the child sit in comfort and with a holy cheerfulnes with a holy freedom of spirit; not in a sullen way, but as a child in the presence of his father, and not as a servant with the master.