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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 5
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2 Secondly, strength of Affection is required also: That is, the affections must work mightily after God, striving with God in Prayer: If ever thou hadst a heart inflamed in any thing, it should be when thou art praying or attending upon the Word; as the Heathens that worshipped the Sun, sometimes I have told you that they would not have a Snail, but a flying-Horse, they would offer that that was swift: so when we come to the living God, we must have living affections, our affections boiling; and that will be the way to cure vain thoughts; as the flies will ⟨p. 83⟩not come to the honey if it be boiling hot, but when it is cold: So if the heart be boiling hot, and the affections a working, it will keep out vain thoughts and temptations: It is a sign of the breath of life when it is warm, but artificial breath you know it is cold; as now, the breath that comes out of the body that is warm, but the breath that comes out of a pair of bellows that is cold: So the breath of many people in prayer, it is discovered to be but artificial breath because it is so cold, but if there were spiritual life, then it would be warm. There must be strength of affection.
2 Secondly, strength of Affection is required also: That is, the affections must work mightily after God, striving with God in Prayer: If ever thou hadst a heart inflam'd in any thing, it should be when thou art praying or attending upon the Word; as the Heathens that worshipped the Sun, sometimes I have told you that they would not have a Snail, but a flying-Horse, they would offer that that was swift: so when we come to the living God, we must have living affections, our affections boyling; and that will be the way to cure vain thoughts; as the flies will ⟨p. 83⟩not come to the hony if it be boyling hot, but when it is cold: So if the heart be boyling hot, and the affections a working, it will keep out vain thoughts and temptations: It is a sign of the breath of life when it is warm, but artificial breath you know it is cold; as now, the breath that comes out of the body that is warm, but the breath that comes out of a pair of bellows that is cold: So the breath of many people in prayer, it is discovered to be but artificial breath because it is so cold, but if there were spiritual life, then it would be warm. There must be strength of affection.