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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 12
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.
And now for the knowledge and understanding of the nature of the Sacrament; there need be knowledge in other points of Religion, for we can never come to understand the nature of this Sacrament, without knowing God, and knowing our selves, knowing in what estate we were by nature, knowing our Fall, knowing the way of Redemption, knowing Jesus Christ what he was, and what he hath done for the making of an Atonement, the necessity of Jesus Christ, and what the way of the Covenant is that God hath appointed to bring mens souls to eternal life by. The main points of Religion must be known, but ⟨p. 246⟩especially that that concerns the nature of a Sacrament.
Now this knowledge likewise must be actual, not merely habitual knowledge, but there must be a stirring up of this knowledge, that is, by meditation, I must be meditating, have actual thoughts and meditations of what I do know; that ought to be the work of a Christian in coming to receive the Sacrament, to quicken up his knowledge, to have a renewed work of his knowledge by actual thoughts and meditations of the main points of Religion, and especially of th nature and the end of this holy institution, that is the first thing.
Now this knowledge likewise must be actual, not meerly habitual knowledge, but there must be a stirring up of this knowledge, that is, by meditation, I must be meditating, have actual thoughts and meditations of what Ido know; that ought to be the work of a Christian in coming to receive the Sacrament, to quicken up his knowledge, to have a renewed work of his knowledge by actual thoughts and meditations of the main points of Religion, and especially of th nature and the end of this holy institution, that is the first thing.
Secondly, As we must come understandingly, without which we cannot sanctify Gods Name, so we must come with hearts suitable to the work that we are about, that is, because the great thing that is here, is the breaking of Christs body, and the pouring forth his blood. A suitable disposition to this is brokenness of heart, sense of our sin, of that dreadful breach that sin hath made between God and the soul; our sin should be upon our hearts so as to break them; But this brokenness must be Evangelical; it must be through the applying of the blood of Christ unto my soul; I must come to be sensible of my sin; but especially be sensible of it by what I see in the holy Sacrament, that must make me sensible of my sin: There are a great many things to make me sensible of my sin: The consideration of the great God that thou hast sinned against, and the Curse of the Law that's due to thee, the wrath of God that is incensed against thee for thy sin, and those eternal flames that are prepared for sinners, those everlasting burnings.