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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.
Answ. To that I answer. First, That the Prophet, and those that penned the Psalms they had a prophetical spirit; and those places that you read that are in a way of cursing, they are rather prophetical predictions of evil, than direful imprecations; they are rather fore-telling what shall be in a way of prophecy, than wishing what should be.
Answ. To that I answer. First, That the Prophet, and those that pen'd the Psalms they had a prophetical spirit; and those places that you reade that are in a way of cursing, they are rather prophetical predictions of evil, than direful imprecations; they are rather fore-telling what shall be in a way of prophesie, than wishing what should be.
Secondly, If they be wishing what should be, then I answer That those which were endued with such a prophetical spirit, they did know who were the implacable enemies of God, and who were not; as David prayed against Judas, so many hundred years before he was born: by a prophetical spirit he knew that he was the child of perdition; indeed, if we could certainly know a man that were to be a cast-away eternally from God, it were another matter: As the Church in the time of Julian, because of his Apostasy being so abominable, it was determined almost generally by them, that he had committed the sin against the holy Ghost, and upon that they cursed him. Now I say, those that had an extraordinary spirit, that did know who these were, they might do it; but this is no example ⟨p. 280⟩for us in an ordinary way to wish evil and curses upon others. But thus far we may do with the Enemies of the Church.
Secondly, If they be wishing what should be, then I answer That those which were endued with such a prophetical spirit, they did know who were the implacable enemies of God, and who were not; as David praied against Judas, so many hundred yeers before he was born: by a prophetical spirit he knew that he was the child of perdition; indeed, if we could certainly know a man that were to be a cast-away eternallie from God, it were another matter: As the Church in the time of Julian, because of his Apostasie being so abominable, it was determined almost generally by them, that he had committed the sin against the holy Ghost, and upon that they curs'd him. Now I say, those that had an extraordinarie spirit, that did know who these were, they might do it; but this is no example