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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 9
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9 The Ninth Particular is this, If we would Sanctify the Name of God in his word, we must receive the Word into honest hearts. This you have in Luk. 8. 15. in the Parable of the Sower; you shall find there that there are divers grounds that do receive the seed; and by those divers grounds are meant divers sorts of hearers: There is First the high-way ground, that is, such as hear the word and never regard what they hear, and as soon as ever they go out of the Congregation the seed of the Word is quite gone and is as if they had not heard at all. And ⟨p. 187⟩then there is the stony ground, and the thorny ground, that is, those that hear with joy (as was spoken of before) but the cares of the world choke the seed of the word; as soon as ever they are gone, they are upon their worldly business, and their thoughts and hearts runs that way. But then there is the good ground, that is, Those that receive the seed of the Word into a good and honest heart, a good and an honest heart they are both joined together. By a good heart is meant a heart that hath not malice in it, a heart that doeth desire to empty it self of every thing that is against the Word, and which is not suitable to the spiritualness of the Word: A heart I say that entertains nothing in it that any way makes against the word: A good heart is a heart which (as the Apostle saith in Jam. 1. 21. and that place may very well come in here to be opened) is cleansed from all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness. The word that is there translated filthiness it signifies Excrements; that which is unclean, that which comes from the body, such is the sinfulness of your hearts; you come to hear the word, if it be with evil hearts you mingle that very filthiness which is as vile before God as excrements are: And superfluity of naughtiness; by that I take is meant, as if the holy Ghost should say, Do not think it enough for to purge away filthiness, that is notorious stinking evils, abominable sins, that you do not come with such filthy vile hearts, but whatsoever there is in your heart that is any way against the work of Grace, it is a superfluity of naughtiness, all kind of evil thoughts, and evil affections that are more then needs.
9 The Ninth Particular is this, If we would Sanctifie the Name of God in his word, we must receive the Word into honest hearts. This you have in