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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 8
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But you will say, what is the meaning of the ploughing of our hearts for the preparation of the word? The meaning is nothing else but this The work of humiliation, the humbling of the soul before the Lord when it doth come to hear Gods word.
But you will say, what is the meaning of the plowing of our hearts for the preparation of the word? The meaning is nothing else but this The work of humiliation, the humbling of the soul before the Lord when it doth come to hear Gods word.
Humble it in these two regards.
First be humbled for your ignorance that you know so little of Gods mind as you do.
Secondly be humbled for all the sinfulness of your hearts, be sensible of the sinfulness and wretchedness of your hearts and the miserable condition that you are in, if you can get your hearts broken with the sense of your sin and misery, and come so to hear the word, it is very like the word may be of mighty use, and Gods name may be very much Sanctified in your hearing of the word.
Secondly be humbled for all the sinfulnesse of your hearts, be senceable of the sinfulnesse and wretchednesse of your hearts and the miserable condition that you are in, if you can get your hearts broken with the sence of your sin and misery, and come so to hear the word, it is very like the word may be of mighty use, and Gods name may be very much Sanctified in your hearing of the word.