B01867:360
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 7
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.
1 In the First place, Learn to know God more with whom you have to do, and present those things that you have heard before you in your meditations, when as you are to come to God in Prayer, or in any other duty, and when you are Worshipping of God, remember that you have to do with God and none else. You are every time you come to perform holy duties to be as a man or woman separated from all things. Valerius Maximus tells a story of a young noble-man that attended upon Alexander while he was sacrificing, this noble-man held his Censer for Incense, and in the holding of it, there fell a coal upon his flesh and burnt it so, as the very scent of it was in the nostrils of all that were about him, and because he would not disturb Alexander in his service, he resolutely did not stir to put off the fire from him, but holds still his Censer. If Heathens made such ado in their sacrificing to their Idol-gods, that they would mind it so, as no disturbance must be made what ever they endured: What care should we have then of our selves when we come to Worship the high God? And so Josephus he reports of the Priests that were sacrificing in the Temple when Pompey brake in to them with armed men, and though they ⟨p. 114⟩might have fled and saved their lives, yet they would not leave off their sacrificing but were slain by the soldiers: They did so mind it as a matter of great consequence. Oh that we could mind the duties of Gods Worship as matters of great moment, that so we might learn to Sanctify the Name of God in the performance of them more then ever we have done.
1 In the First place, Learn to know God more with whom you have to do, and present those things that you have heard before you in your meditations, when as you are to come to God in Prayer, or in any other duty, and when you are Worshipping of God, remember that you have to do with God and none else. You are every time you come to performe holy duties to be as a man or woman seperated from all things. Valerius Maximus tels a story of a yong noble-man that attended upon Alexander while he was sacrificing, this noble-man held his Censer for Incense, and in the holding of it, there fell a coal upon his flesh and burnt it so, as the very scent of it was in the nostrils of all that were about him, and because he would not disturb Alexander in his service, he resolutely did not stir to put off the fire from him, but holds still his Censer. If Heathens made such adoe in their sacrificing to their Idoll-gods, that they would mind it so, as no disturbance must be made what ever they endured: What care should we have then of our selves when we come to Worship the high God? And so Josephus he reports of the Priests that were sacrificing in the Temple when Pompey brake in to them with armed men, and though they