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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.
The Second thing in the manner of prayer, it is the giving up all the faculties of our souls in it; I spake to that in the worship of God in general, we shall apply it now particularly to prayer, the giving up, not only our understandings, but wills, thoughts, affections, strength in prayer, in 2 Chron. 20.3. it is said of Jehoshaphat, that he set himself to seek the Lord, he did give his whole self to seek the Lord: we are to give our whole self, and not to divide in prayer. Now there were an argument that indeed might well take up a whole Sermon, in showing the evil of the wandering of our spirits in prayer; we should take heed of the wandering of our spirits in the hearing of the Word, and receiving the Sacraments, and so in Prayer; the people of God are much troubled with the wandering of their thoughts both in Word and Sacrament, and it is their great burden, and should be so, but I never hear any more complainings of the wandering of their spirits than in the time of prayer, the people of God are much pestered in their spirits with this evil, it is very grievous unto them, and many of them go under it as a grievous burden all their days; the chiefest burden that is upon their spirits is their wandering in prayer; so that if God should speak to them as he spake unto Solomon, and bade him ask what he should give him, I verily believe there are many in this Congregation, that have already good assurance of Gods love in Christ, if they had not that, that would be the main thing that they would ask, but having attained that, if God would speak from heaven and say, What shall I give you for your selves, if he should ask you in the General, it may be you would ask something for the Churches; but if it be for your selves, you would put up this petition, Oh Lord that I may be delivered from a wandering spirit in holy ⟨p. 282⟩duties, and especially in the duty of prayer, that I may thereby come to enjoy more holy communion with thy self than ever yet I enjoyed, and they would account this to be a greater mercy than if God should give them to be Kings or Queens over the whole World;
The Second thing in the manner of prayer, it is the giving up all the faculties of our souls in it; I spake to that in the worship of God in generall, wee shall apply it now particularly to prayer, the giving up, not only our understandings, but wills, thoughts, affections, strength in prayer, in