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Gospel-Worship
Gospel-worship: or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general. And particularly in these 3. great ordinances, [brace] viz. [brace] 1. Hearing the Word. 2. Receiving the Lords Supper 3. Prayer. By Jeremiah Burroughs, the Gospel-preacher to two of the greatest congregations in England, viz. Stepney and Cripple-gate, London.Gospel-worship: or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in generall. And particularly in these 3. great ordinances, [brace] viz. [brace] 1. Hearing the Word. 2. Receiving the Lords Supper 3. Prayer. By Jeremiah Burroughes, the Gospel-preacher to two of the greatest congregations in England, viz. Stepney and Criple-gate, London.
London: printed for Peter Cole and R.W., 1647
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Gospel-worship: OR, The right manner of drawing nigh to God in gene… › Sermon 3
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Fourthly,1 There had need be preparation because of the great hinderances of the Worship of God. This business and the other business would hinder; the entanglements, they would hinder; the temptations of the Devil, they would hinder; sometimes the indisposition of our bodies doth mightily hinder; and the stirrings of the passions of our minds they hinder: if there be any business falls out amiss in the family, and any thing go but cross, how are we put off the hinges & made unfit for holy duties! There had need be preparation therefore because there are so many hinderances in the way, many of you will complain that you are much hindered, but do you do what you can to make preparation before hand? Do the hinderances that you complain of put you on to be so much the more careful to make due preparation for holy duties.
Fourthly,1 There had need be preparation because of the great hinderances of the Worship of God. This businesse and the other businesse would hinder; the intanglements, they would hinder; the temptations of the Devill, they would hinder; sometimes the indisposition of our bodies doth mightily hinder; and the stirrings of the passions of our minds they hinder: if there be any businesse fals out amisle in the family, and any thing go but crosse, how are we put off the hinges & made unfit for holy duties! There had need be preparation therefore because there are so many hinderances in the way, many of you will complain that you are much hindered, but do you do what you can to make preparation before hand? Do the hinderances that you complain of put you on to be so much the more carefull to make due preparation for holy duties.
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Fifthly,1 We find that the heathens themselves by the light of nature when they did but worship their Idol gods, they would make some preparation, such as was suitable to those gods that the worshipped, therefore they would wash their flesh and purge themselves, but though their preparation was but very poor, yet they taught us thus much, That they were convinst in their consciences that when God was to be Worshipped, people should be prepared.