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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 7
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Now you will say, How doth God appear, that he doth not accept of them? He will appear in these three things:
1 First by blasting those that do worship him thus in a formal way: It shall at First be secret, but afterwards it will appear more apparently, and we see it by experience, that such as have bin professors of Religion, and worship God in hypocrisy, and in formality, they have been blasted in their parts and common gifts.
1 First by blasting those that do worship him thus in a formall way: It shall at First be secret, but afterwards it will appear more apparantly, and we see it by experience, that such as have bin professors of Religion, and worship God in hypocris•e, and in formality, they have been blasted in their parts and common gifts.
The judgement of God upon Nadab and Abihu that did not sanctify Gods Name it was secret at first: It struck them dead, and though by fire, yet if you read the story you shall find that their clothes were not burnt, and yet they were burnt in their bodies: So the Lord some times doth blast men inwardly in their Spirits, in their Souls, in their Parts, in their common Gifts •he blasts them I say inwardly though it doth not appear outwardly, yet at length it will appear before men that they are blasted: and in these times of the Gospel the Lord doth come with spiritual judgments rather then with outward temporal judgements. In the time of the Law, those that did not sanctify the Name of God in holy duties, the Lord did appear by some external and visible way upon their bodies; but now in the time of the Gospel there God comes with more spiritual judgements upon mens Souls, and those are the most terrible judgements: We have a notable Scripture for this in