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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 13
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The second thing in the institution is, that the Bread being taken by the Minister is to be blessed, broken, and then to be given; Christ took it, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it: and the people they are to look upon all this: to look upon the Ministers taking, blessing, breaking, and giving; and then the cup by its self, we find Christ in Matth. 26. 27. he first ⟨p. 264⟩blest the bread, and then he blest the cup distinctly by its self saying, this is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many, for the remission of sins; and you shall observe that the text saith he drank it, and said, drink ye all of it; so that this is not according to the institution for a Minister to go up and down, and to give it into every mans hand; certainly this was not so from the beginning; this is a way of mans own devising; for the bread and the cup to be given into every bodies hand by the Minister: Christ did but give it once, he gave it to them all, and said, drink ye all of this, so it was done.
The second thing in the institution is, that the Bread being taken by the Minister is to be blessed, broken, and then to bee given; Christ took it, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it: and the people they are to look upon all this: to look upon the Ministers taking, blessing, breaking, and giving; and then the cup by its selfe, wee find Christ in Matth. 26. 27. hee first ⟨p. 264⟩blest the bread, and then he blest the cup distinctly by its selfe saying, this is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many, for the remission of sinnes; and you shall observe that the text saith he drank it, and said, drink yee all of it; so that this is not according to the institution for a Minister to goe up and downe, and to give it into every mans hand; certainly this was not so from the beginning; this is a way of mans own devising; for the bread and the cup to be given into every bodies hand by the Minister: Christ did but give it once, hee gave it to them all, and said, drink yee all of this, so it was done.