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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
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 Secondly, To give God his own, that is, what comes from the work of his own Spirit, or else we do not Sanctify Gods Name. I will give you one text further about the matter of it, in Exod. 39. if you read the Chapter, you shall find that there is ten times said, that they did as God had commanded Moses: And then in the close of the Chapter, when they had done as God had commanded in his Worship; the text saith, Moses blessed them. That people is a blessed people that do observe the Worship of God as God hath commanded them. But the main thing is, all that we do it must acted by the Spirit of God; it ⟨p. 87⟩is not enough to have true silver and gold, but it must have the right stamp or else it cannot go for current coin. And so it is not enough that the things that we offer to God in His Worship be Gods own, be what we have warrant for out of Gods Word, but it must have the stamp of the Spirit of God. In the Worship of God there be Two Questions that He will ask, First, Who required this at your hands? But then if you can Answer thus, Thou O Lord, didst require it: It is well: but then God hath another Question, Whose Image and Superscription is this? If thou canst not give an Answer to that, it will be rejected too: Thou must be acted by Divine principles, in all that thou doest, there must be the stamp of the Spirit upon that which is tendered to God, else it is nothing. To open this Point fully will ask some time.
2 Secondly, To give God his own, that is, what comes from the work of his own Spirit, or else we do not Sanctifie Gods Name. I will give you one text further about the matter of it, in Exod. 39. if you read the Chapter, you shall find that there is ten times said, that they did as God had commanded Moses: And then in the close of the Chapter, when they had done as God had commanded in his Worship; the text saith, Moses blessed them. That people is a blessed people that do observe the Worship of God as God hath commanded them. But the main thing is, all that we do it must acted by the Spirit of God; it ⟨p. 87⟩is not enough to have true silver and gold, but it must have the right stamp or else it cannot go for current coyn. And so it is not enough that the things that we offer to God in His Worship be Gods own, be what we have warrant for out of Gods Word, but it must have the stamp of the Spirit of God. In the Worship of God there be Two Questions that He wil ask, First, Who required this at your hands? But then if you can Answer thus, Thou O Lord, didst require it: It is well: but then God hath another Question, Whose Image and Superscription is this? If thou canst not give an Answer to that, it will be rejected too: Thou must be acted by Divine principles, in all that thou doest, there must be the stamp of the Spirit upon that which is tendered to God, else it is nothing. To open this Point fully will ask some time.