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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.
Now first for the word Sacrament, I confess we have not that word in all the Scripture, as neither have we the word Trinity, and divers other words that Ministers make use of, to set forth the Mysteries of Religion by; but yet it is useful to consider the meaning why ministers in the Church have given this name, unto those signs and seals that the Church receives; Sacrament, is to hallow a thing, or to dedicate, because in the Sacraments there are outward things, that ere made holy, for holy and spiritual ends.
Now first for the word Sacrament, I confese we have not that word in all the Scripture, as neither have we the word Trinity, and divers other words that Ministers make use of, to set forth the Mysteries of Religion by; but yet it is useful to consider the meaning why ministers in the Church have given this name, unto those signs and seals that the Church receives; Sacrament, is to hallow a thing, or to dedicate, because in the Sacraments there are outward things, that ere made holy, for holy and spiritual ends.
Secondly, We our selves do as it were hallow, or dedicate our selves unto God in the use of these Ordinances; that's one reason from whence it hath the name.
Or otherwise as some will have it Sacramentum, because it is to be received Sacrament with a holy mind, and therefore called the Sacrament. The Churches have used it a long time; in Tertullians time (which was above fourteen hundred years ago) he was the first that we find used this word, and most that ⟨p. 226⟩would open the word unto us, say, that especially it was taken from the practise of Soldiers, who when they came and listed themselves, bound themselves in a solemn oath to be faithful to their Captain, and to the Cause that they did undertake; and the oath, they were wont to call Sacramentum, A Sacrament. Now in regard that Christians when they come to this Ordinance, they come to seal a Covenant with God, and though they do not formally and explicitly take an oath, yet they bind themselves in a holy Covenant, which hath the strength even of an oath in it; (For a solemn Promise to the high God hath the strength of an oath in it) and from thence they were called by these names, Sacraments: but that for the word, that you may understand it.