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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.
1. Because there is so much of God in it, for here there is a presenting before us the great yea the greatest mysteries of salvation, and the deep Counsels of God concerning eternal life, are presented before us in these outward Elements of the bread and wine, and the action thereof; now when we come to eat and to drink those things that are appointed to set forth the greatest mysteries of salvation, and the deepest of the Counsels of God concerning mans eternal good, wherein especially God will glorify himself, we had need there sanctify the Name of God, for the things are very great and glorious that are presented unto us.
1. Because there is so much of God in it, for here there is a presenting before us the great yea the greatest mysteries of salvation, and the deep Counsels of God concerning eternal life, are presented before us in these outward Elements of the bread and wine, and the action thereof; now when we come to eat and to drink those things that are appointed to set forth the greatest mysteries of salvation, and the deepest of the Counsels of God concerning mans eternal good, wherein especially God will glorifie himself, we had need there sanctifie the Name of God, for the things are very great and glorious that are presented unto us.
2. This Ordinance of the Lords Supper, or the Communion it is an Ordinance that Christ hath left to his Church, out of the abundance of his love, and therefore you shall find if you read the institution of it, in the 23. of Matth. that the same night wherein Christ was betrayed, he took bread and brake it; though Christ was to die the next day, and to encounter with the wrath of God, yea that very night he was to be in an agony, and to sweat drops of water and blood, and the next day to die and to have these Trials of wrath poured upon him, so as to put him to cry out my God my God why hast thou forsaken me: Yet he busies his thoughts that very night to institute this Supper surely it must be a great Ordinance, and there is a great deal of love of Christ in it. Christ saw that his Church had need of it, that he should that night when he was betrayed have his thoughts busied about such a thing as this is. One would think at that time, that he had enough to take up his thoughts concerning himself, being to encounter with the Law, and with the wrath of God for mans sin; but for all that great work Christ had to encounter with, yet his thoughts are busied about this great Ordinance of the institution of the Supper, and therefore there was great love in it, Christ saw