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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 9
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.
9 The Ninth Particular is this, If we would Sanctify the Name of God in his Word, we must receive the Word into honest hearts. This you have in Luk. 8.15. in the Parable of the Sower• you shall find there that there are divers grounds that do receive the seed; and by those divers ground• are meant divers sorts of hearts: There is First the high way ground, that is, such as hear the Word and never regard what they hear, and as soon as ever they go out of the Congregation he seed o• •e Word is quite gone and is as if they had not heard at all. And ⟨p. 187⟩then there is the stony ground, and the thorny ground, that is, those that hear with joy (as was spoken of before) but the cares of the world choke the seed of the Word; as soon as ever they are gone, they are upon their worldly business, and their thoughts and hearts runs that way. But then there is the good ground, that is, Those that receive the Seed of the Word into a good and honest heart, a good and an honest heart they are both joined together. By a good heart is meant a heart that hath not malice in it, a heart that doth desire to empty it self of every thing that is against the Word, and which is not suitable to the Spiritualness of the Word: A heart (I say) that entertains nothing in it that any way makes against the Word: A good heart is a heart (which as the Apo le saith in Jam. 1.21. and that place may very well come in here to be opened) is cleansed from all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness. The word that is there translated filthiness, it signifies Excrements: that which is unclean, that which comes from the body, such is the sinfulness of your hearts; you come to hear the Word, if it be with evil hearts you mingle that very filthiness which is as vile before God as excrements are. And superfluity of naughtiness; by that I take is meant, as if the holy-Ghost should say, Do not think it enough for to purge away filthiness, that is notorious stinking evils, abominable sins, that you do not come with such filthy vile hearts, but whatsoever there is in your heart that is any way against the work of grace, it is a superfluity of naughtiness, all kind of evil thoughts, and evil affections that are more than needs.