A77988:622
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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Object. But you will say, do not we read in the book of the Psalms, where many times the Prophet David doth curse the enemies of God and wishes evil to come upon them.
Object. But you will say, do not wee read in the book of the Psalmes, where many times the Prophet David doth curse the enimies of God and wishes evill to come upon them.
Answ. To that I answer, first, that the Prophets, and those that penned the Psalms they had a prophetical spirit; and those places that you read that are in way of cursing, they are rather prophetical predictions of evil then direful imprecations, they are rather foretelling what shall be in a way of prophecy then wishing what should be.
Answ. To that I answer, first, that the Prophets, and those that pen'd the Psalmes they had a prophetical spirit; and those places that you read that are in way of cursing, they are rather propheticall predictions of evill then direfull imprecations, they are rather foretelling what shall be in a way of prophecie then wishing what should be.
Secondly, if they be wishing what should be, then I answer, that those that were endued with such a prophetical spirit, they did know who were the implacable enemies of God, and who were not, as David prayed against Judas, so many hundred years before he was borne; by a prophetical spirit, he knew that he was the child of perdition; indeed if we could certainly know a man that were to be a cast-away eternally from God, it were another matter; as the Church in the time of Julian, because of his Apostasy being so abominable, it was determined almost generally by them that he had committed the sin against the holy Ghost, and upon that they curst him. Now I say, those that had an extraordinary spirit that did know who these were, they might do it; but this is no example