A77988:482
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Or otherwise as some will have it Sacramentum, because it is to be received Sacrament with a holy mind, and therefore called the Sacrament. The Churches have used it a long time; in Tertullians time (which was above fourteen hundred years ago) he was the first that we find used this word, and most that ⟨p. 226⟩would open the word unto us, say, that especially it was taken from the practise of Soldiers, who when they came and listed themselves, bound themselves in a solemn oath to be faithful to their Captain, and to the Cause that they did undertake; and the oath, they were wont to call Sacramentum, A Sacrament. Now in regard that Christians when they come to this Ordinance, they come to seal a Covenant with God, and though they do not formally and explicitly take an oath, yet they bind themselves in a holy Covenant, which hath the strength even of an oath in it; (For a solemn Promise to the high God hath the strength of an oath in it) and from thence they were called by these names, Sacraments: but that for the word, that you may understand it.
Or otherwise as some will have it Sacramentum, because it is to be received Sacramente with a holy mind, and therefore cald the Sacrament. The Churches have used it a long time; in Tertullians time (which was above fourteen hundred years agoe) he was the first that we find used this word, and most that ⟨p. 226⟩would open the word unto us, say, that especially it was taken from the practise of Souldiers, who when they came and listed themselves, bound themselves in a solemne oath to be faithful to their Captaine, and to the Cause that they did undertake; and the oath, they were wont to call Sacramentum, A Sacrament. Now in regard that Christians when they come to this Ordinance, they come to seale a Covenant with God, and though they doe not formally and explicitely take an oath, yet they bind themselves in a holy Covenant, which hath the strength even of an oath in it; (For a solemne Promise to the high God hath the strength of an oath in it) and from thence they were cald by these names, Sacraments: but that for the word, that you may understand it.