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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 4: SARMON IV.
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Now there is nothing doth limit a gracious heart, but to all Eternity it would work and work more and more for God. Here now is a Worship that is some way suitable to the infinite excellency that there is in God: Here's a kind of proportion (as I may so speak) even between the creature and God himself in this thing, but it is the grace of God in the creature, here is the Image of God indeed, because grace doth so enlarge the heart even to an infiniteness as it were for God. And thus you see in the general what it is to Sanctify Gods Name, to tender up to God that which is some way suitable to the glory of the infinite God.
Now there is nothing doth limit a gracious heart, but to all Eternity it would work and work more and more for God. Here now is a Worship that is some way suitable to the infinite excellencie that there is in God: Here's a kind of proportion (as I may so speak) even between the creature and God himself in this thing, but it is the grace of God in the creature, here is the Image of God indeed, because grace doth so inlarge the heart even to an infinitnesse as it were for God. And thus you see in the generall what it is to Sanctifie Gods Name, to tender up to God that which is some way suitable to the glory of the infinite God.
2 You know there was a Second thing, viz. That then I do ⟨p. 66⟩Sanctify Gods Name when I come so to worship God as my heart works, and follows after God as a God, so as it doth beseem the soul of a Creature to follow the infinite Creator, and to work after the infinite Creator: So David in Psal. 63. 5. My Soul followeth hard after thee, O God, and (mark it's a very sweet Scripture) thy right hand upholdeth me. Those whose hearts follow hard after the Lord, they have the right hand of God upholding of them: It is a mighty encouragement to put forth the heart to the uttermost, because when thou doest so the right hand of God upholds thee: so that thy heart must follow after God more then it followed after any creature.