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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.
it never comes into the soul but after it hath done any work it came for, it leaves a sweet scent, after that, the soul finds a sweetness in that prayer; now many of you have been in the morning at prayer, but I appeal to you; what sweet savour of the Spirit of God is left behind? certainly if the Spirit hath been there it is like Civit that is put into a little box, though you should take out the Civit, yet there will be a sweet savour left behind; so though the Spirit of God, in respect of the present assistance, withdraws it self, yet it leaves a sweet savour behind.
it never comes into the soul but after it hath done any work it came for, it leaves a sweet scent, after that, the soul finds a sweetness in that prayer; now many of you have been in the morning at prayer, but I appeal to you; what sweet savor of the Spirit of God is left behind? certainly if the Spirit hath been there it is like Civit that is put into a little box, though you should take out the Civit, yet there will be a sweet savor left behind; so though the Spirit of God, in respect of the present assistance, withdraws it self, yet it leaves a sweet savor behind.
The fourth thing is purity of heart; pure hearts and hands in Heb 10 22. Rev. 5. 8. having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of Saints; mark, the prayers of Saints are odours in golden vials; the golden vials I may compare to the heart; the hearts of the Saints must be as golden vials, and then their prayers will be as odours; in 1 Tim. 2. 8. the holy Ghost giving directions how we should pray, it is with this qualification, I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting, the outward conversation must be pure, and the heart pure; in Job, 22. 26. mark what's said concerning that holy man; there's a promise made to him for the lifting up of his face to God, putting away iniquity from his Tabernacle, that by putting away evil from our Tabernacles, and from our hearts, we may be able to lift up our hearts with joy to go; and that's the fourth thing, purity of heart and hands.