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Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general. And…
Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general. And particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. Hearing the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer. / By Jeremiah Burroughs. At the end of the contents of this book is printed the titles of all the works of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs, that are published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general. And particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. Hearing the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer. / By Jeremiah Burroughs. At the end of the contents of this book is printed the titles of all the works of Mr. Ieremiah Burroughs, that are published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1648
Gospel-worship: OR, The right manner of drawing nigh to God, in gen… › Sermon 4
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.
2 You know there was a Second thing, viz. That then I do ⟨p. 66⟩Sanctify Gods Name when I come so to Worship God as my heart works, and follows after God as a God, so as it doth beseem the soul of a Creature to follow the infinite Creator, and to work after the infinite Creator: So David in Psal. 63.5. My Soul followeth hard after thee, O God, and (mark it's a very sweet Scripture) thy right hand upholdeth me. Those whose hearts follow hard after the Lord, they have the right-Hand of God upholding of them: It's a mighty encouragement to put forth the heart to the uttermost, because when thou doest so, the right hand of God upholds thee: so that thy heart must follow after God more than it followed after any creature.
2 You know there was a Second thing, viz. That then I do ⟨p. 66⟩Sanctifie Gods Name when I come so to Worship God as my heart works, and follows after God as a God, so as it doth beseem the soul of a Creature to follow the infinit Creator, and to work after the infinit Creator: So David in Psal. 63.5. My Soul followeth hard after thee, O God, and (mark it's a very sweet Scripture) thy right hand upholdeth me. Those whose hearts follow hard after the Lord, they have the right-Hand of God upholding of them: It's a mighty encouragement to put forth the heart to the uttermost, because when thou doest so, the right hand of God upholds thee: so that thy heart must follow after God more than it followed after any creature.
3 When I come to draw nigh to God, I come to present my self for the Communication of the choicest of His Mercies, so then I Sanctify Gods Name when I labour to prepare and open my heart for God as for the choicest Mercies that God hath to bestow upon His Creature. When there is such a temper of heart that my conscience tells me it is suitable to that that is fit for a Soul to have that expects to receive the choicest Mercies from God; but that we spake too more in the opening of our drawing nigh to God. Now we are to come more particularly to this, to open the Sanctifying of Gods Name.