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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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It will cost us some time to open the particular things in the behaviour of the heart as in reference to the Greatness and Majesty of God, considered more generally; as in Psal. 48. 1. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. And so in Mal. 1. 14. Cursed be the deceiver which hath in his f•ock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing. Why? for I am a great King saith the Lord, and therefore cursed is he that doth not offer a Sacrifice suitable to my Greatness? And in 2 Chron 2. 5. we find that Solomon when he was preparing for the Temple, he would build a great Temple, why? because God was a great God that he would build it too: So that the Worship of God must be some great thing because the Lord is a great God, and it must ⟨p. 67⟩be suitable to his greatness. Now if you ask me in what particulars doth the behaviour of the Soul consist that is very suitable to the greatness of God in the general? there are many things in this:
It will cost us some time to open the particular things in the behaviour of the heart as in reference to the Greatnesse and Majestie of God, considered more generally; as in Psal. 48. 1. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. And so in Mal. 1. 14. Cursed be the deceiver which hath in his f•ock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing. Why? for I am a great King saith the Lord, and therefore cursed is he that doth not offer a Sacrifice suitable to my Greatnesse? And in 2 Chron 2. 5. we find that Solomon when he was preparing for the Temple, he would build a great Temple, why? because God was a great God that he would build it too: So that the Worship of God must be some great thing because the Lord is a great God, and it must ⟨p. 67⟩