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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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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.
You will say, Must we plough up our hearts before we come to hear? It must be the word that must plough us, the word is the plough, and so the Ministers of God are compared to ploughmen in the word, he that puts his hand to the plough and looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of heaven.
You will say, Must we plow up our hearts before we come to hear? It must be the word that must plow us, the word is the plow, and so the Ministers of God are compared to plowmen in the word, he that puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of heaven.
It is true, it cannot be expected that the heart should be throughly ploughed as it ought but by the word, therefore at the first coming to hear there is not hope that men will Sanctify Gods name till the word gets in to plough them, and so by getting at one time into their hearts they come to be prepared for hearing at another time. And yet some what may be done before by that natural knowledge that men have they may come to know themselves to be sinners, and come to understand themselves to be very weak and ignorant by some knowledge that they may have by the works of God, and by conference with others, and by reading and the like, and so they may in some measure come to have their hearts to be humbled. And it is good to make use of these to humble the heart, but now, You that have heard the word often, and yet have not Sanctified Gods name, there be truths that you have heard heretofore, that if you had made use of in private to have, ploughed up your hearts, they would have prepared your hearts for the next time in hearing of the word, If therefore you would hear the word with a great deal more profit then formerly, your hearts must be ploughed by humiliation.