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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
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.
For the First, That the hearing of Gods Word it is a part of Gods Worship. You heard in the opening of the worship of God in the general what it was, I told you it was a tendering ⟨p. 163⟩up of the creatures homage to God, a Testimony of the respect that the creature did owe to God; now if that be the nature of Worship, certainly the hearing of Gods Word it is a part of the Worship of God: for in the hearing of Gods Word we
1 First do profess our dependence upon God for the knowing of his mind and the way to eternal life: Every time we come to hear the Word, if we know what we do, we do thus much, we do profess that we do depend upon the Lord God for the knowing of his mind, and the way and rule to eternal life; we do as much as if we should say, Lord of our selves we neither know thee, nor the way & means how we should come to be saved, and therefore that we might testify our dependence upon thee for this thing, we here present our selves before thee. Now this is a Testimony of the high respect we owe to God.
1 First do profess our dependance upon God for the knowing of his mind and the way to eternal life: Every time we come to hear the Word, if we know what we do, we do thus much, we do profess that we do depend upon the Lord God for the knowing of his mind, and the way and rule to eternal life; we do as much as if we should say, Lord of our selves we neither know thee, nor the way & means how we should come to be saved, and therefore that we might testifie our dependance upon thee for this thing, we here present our selves before thee. Now this is a Testimony of the high respect we owe to God.
2 Secondly, The hearing of Gods Word is a part of his worship, because in it we come to wait upon God in the way of an Ordinance, to have that good conveyed to us by way of an Ordinance beyond what the thing in it self is able to do, and therefore 'tis worship, I wait upon God when I am hearing the word (if I know what I do) to have some spiritual good conveyed to me beyond what there is in the means it self, this makes it worship. When I am busied in natural and civil actions, there I must profess that these things can do me no good without God, but I do not wait upon God in an ordinance for the conveyance of natural good beyond what God hath put into the creature; 'tis his blessing with it, that God in the ordinary course of his providence doth convey such natural or civill good in the use of those creatures: But now, when I come to hear his word, I here come to wait upon God in the way of an Ordinance for the conveyance of some spiritual good that this Ordinance hath not in it's self, take it materially, but merely as it hath an institution in it, and is appointed by God for the conveyance of such and such things. God doth appoint meat to nourish me, and together with his appointment he hath given a natural power to meat to nourish my body, that in an ordinary course of providence is enough for the nourishment of my body; but now when I come to hear the Word, I