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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.
Leviticus, 10. 3. I will be Sanctified in them that come nigh me.
WE are first to sanctify Gods Name in regard of the matters of our Prayers. And secondly, in regard of the manner. For the first, we made an end of it the last day, and came unto the manner, and there where two things mentioned.
WEE are first to sanctifie Gods Name in regard of the matters of our Prayers. And secondly, in regard of the manner. For the first, we made an end of it the last day, and came unto the manner, and there where two things mentioned.
First, That we must pray with understanding. Secondly, we must give up our selves to Prayer. Now in the close of the exercise we had occasion to fall upon that Argument about the wandering of our thoughts in Prayer, and by that we come to take Gods name in vain, instead of sanctifying of His Name; God expects that we should have our thoughts, and wills, and affection, our whole souls acting upon him in the duty of prayer, or else we do not pray to God as unto a God; vain thoughts in Prayer do pick up the Sacrifice like the birds that Abraham drove away from the Sacrifice, that they should not pick it. Wicked ⟨p. 284⟩lusts in mens hearts, are like swine to take the meat and all to hale it in the dirt, so their Prayers are filthy and dirty with their lusts; but those that are otherwise Godly, yet by their vain thoughts the beauty and excellency of there prayers is taken away; as Wine and Beer that have the spirits of them gone, so the life and spirit of our duties are gone by our vain thoughts, and therefore vain thoughts do dead the heart very much. So saith David in the 119. Psal. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken me in thy Law: while our eyes look upon vanity, there will be no quickness in our hearts in any service that we tender up to God; now many of Gods people have experience of the evil of this, and they groan under the burden of this: & as I said the last time, if so be that the Lord should speak from Heaven to them, and ask them what he should have, they having already the assurance of his love in Christ, they would ask the deliverance from a vain spirit in the performance of […] Duties: Bring no vain Oblation saith God in