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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 13
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.
LEVITICUS. 10.3. I will be Sanctified in them that come nigh me.
There is one thing more about the Sanctifying the Name of God in the Sacrament which clearly concerns us: and that is.
THere is one thing more about the Sanctifying the Name of God in the Sacrament which cleerly concerns us: and that is.
To keep to the institution of the Sacrament; for this is such a worship of God, as depends merely upon institution; that is, upon a positive Law, upon the will of God: there are some duties of worship which are natural, that we may know by the light of nature they are due to God: but the Sacrament is a duty of worship that is only by institution; and if God had not revealed it, we had not been bound to it; therefore in these duties of institution, God stands very punctual upon them; we must be very exact, neither to erse on the right hand nor the left; to make any alteration in the points of institution; Now therefore for the institution of this Sacrament we find it in divers of the Evangelists, in Matth. 26.26. there you shall find that Christ and his Disciples they eat the Sacrament together; and this was the way of it; They were together sitting at the same Table; so it is called the Table of the Lord sometimes in Scripture; therefore that's the first thing that is according to the institution, that those that do communicate must come to the Table as near as they can; as many as can sit about it, and all to come as near as they can, and the reason is, because that otherwise you will not be able to attain the end why God would have you come to receive; the end is to remember the death of Christ; now except you be able to see the sight, to see what is done, to have your eye as well as your ear exercised, you do not fully accomplish the end that is appointed; for this is a Sacrament, that doth present to our