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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 6
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.
Then what suitable behaviour doth become me? I must come before His presence with fear; It is a fearful thing to fall into His hands that is the living God; that hath my life under His feet, He ⟨p. 97⟩hath the absolute dispose of my present and eternal condition, He gave me my life, He hath preserved my life, and so may take it away when He pleases, and bring death, eternal death unto me. These things may marvellously help your meditation when you are to come before Him, you who are barren in your meditations, go over the Attributes of God thus, and consider what you may be able to draw from thence. God, He is the living God: What behaviour then doth beseem me towards this living God? Oh let me be afraid lest my Soul depart from the living God: Let me bring a living Service to Him, I must not bring a dead heart; let me take heed how I come before the living God with a dead heart, and with a dead Service, to sacrifice that which is dead before it comes, it's like a carrion that lies dead in the ditch. Oh let us be humbled for our dead hearts, and dead Sacrifices; it it a living God that I am Worshipping, and therefore I must pray, Lord turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken my heart in thy Law. Psal. 119.37. Remember when thou comest to worship, that thou come with a quickened heart, for thou hast to deal with a living God: A man or woman that is of an active spirit, cannot endure a dull and heavy servant in the family; but the Lord is a pure act, and nothing else but act, and therefore he doth expect that all His people should have quick active and lively spirits.
Then what sutable behaviour doth become me? I must come before His presence with fear; It is a fearfull thing to fall into His hands that is the living God; that hath my life under His feet, He ⟨p. 97⟩hath the absolute dispose of my present and eternal condition, He gave me my life, He hath preserved my life, and so may take it away when He pleases, and bring death, eternal death unto me. These things may marveilously help your meditation when you are to come before Him, you who are barren in your meditations, go over the Attributes of God thus, and consider what you may be able to draw from thence. God, He is the living God: What behaviour then doth beseeme me towards this living God? Oh let me be afraid lest my Soul depart from the living God: Let me bring a living Service to Him, I must not bring a dead heart; let me take heed how I come before the living God with a dead heart, and with a dead Service, to sacrifice that which is dead before it comes, it's like a carrion that lies dead in the ditch. Oh let us be humbled for our dead hearts, and dead Sacrifices; it it a living God that I am Worshiping, and therefore I must pray, Lord turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken my heart in thy Law.