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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.
First, You should prepare your selves by getting fresh and powerful apprehensions of the glory of God, before whom you go; prepare by meditation about the glory of that infinite God that you are now addressing yo•• self unto; possess your selves with thoughts and meditations of the glory of the great God; that's the first.
First, You should prepare your selves by getting fresh and powerful apprehensions of the glory of God, before whom you go; prepare by meditation about the glory of that infinite God that you are now addressing yo•• self unto; posess your selves with thoughts and meditations of the glory of the great God; that's the first.
Secondly, Labour to get your hearts sensible of what you go for. I am now going to God, for what? for pardon of sin, or for assurance of his love; or for power against sin: or for such and such mercies; let me by meditation work my heart to be sensible of these things, that I am going to God for, to set a due price upon those mercies that I am praying for, and to get my heart affected with them.
Thirdly, labour to get your hearts separated from the world, and from all things that are here below in the world; and that should have been a third thing in the course of your lives, you should never let out your hearts to any creature, either to businesses or pleasures in the world so, but that you may have command of your hearts to call them when you will; to call them in to God in prayer; and then when you come to prayer ⟨p. 276⟩there should be an actual separation of your hearts from all things in the world; dedicating your selves to God for this time, as one that hath nothing to do with the world, nothing to do with any thing but this duty that now you are about; this is the preparation of your hearts to Prayer in the course of your lives.