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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 5
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2 Secondly strength of Affection is required also: That is, the affections must work mightily after God striving with God in prayer: If ever thou haddest a heart inflamed in any thing, it should be when thou art praying or attending upon the Word; as the Heathens that worshipped the Sun sometimes I have told you that they would not have a Snail, but a f•ying Horse, they would offer that that was swift so when we come to the living God, we must have living affections, our affections boiling; and that will be the way to cure vain thoughts; as the flies will ⟨p. 83⟩not come to the honey if it be boiling hot, but when it is cold: So if the heart be boiling hot, and the affections a working, it will keep out vain thoughts and temptations: It is a sign of the breath of life when it is warm, but artificial breath you know it is cold; as now, the breath that comes out of the body that is warm, but the breath that comes out of a pair of bellows that is cold: So the breath of many people in prayer, it is discovered to be but artificial breath, because it is so cold but if there were spiritual life then it would be warm. There must be strength of Affection.
2 Secondly strength of Affection is required also: That is, the affections must work mightily after God striving with God in prayer: If ever thou hadest a heart inflam'd in any thing, it should be when thou art praying or attending upon the Word; as the Heathens that worshipped the Sun sometimes I have told you that they would not have a Snail, but a f•ying Horse, they would offer that that was swift so when we come to the living God, we must have living affections, our affections boyling; and that will be the way to cure vain thoughts; as the flies will ⟨p. 83⟩not come to the hony if it be boyling hot, but when it is cold: So if the heart be boyling hot, and the affections a working, it will keep out vain thoughts and temptations: It is a sign of the breath of life when it is warm, but artificiall breath you know it is cold; as now, the breath that comes out of the body that is warm, but the breath that comes out of a pair of bellowes that is cold: So the breath of many people in prayer, it is discovered to be but artificiall breath, because it is so cold but if there were spirituall life then it would be warm. There must be strength of Affection.