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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 2
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.
For you shall find if you read on in this story, That they were smote with fire from heaven, but it did not appear what fire, for ⟨p. 22⟩it did not so much as consume their clothes, nor their bodies, but went through all & struck them dead, and no body could tell how. Gods judgements do come in a way that is invisible: if it had been in a visible flame of fire, all would have seen it, and it would have burnt their clothes, or their bodies: but you shall find in the 5. verse, That they were carried away from the Sanctuary in their clothes, they were not burnt.
For you shal find if you reade on in this story, That they were smote with fire from heaven, but it did not appear what fire, for ⟨p. 22⟩it did not so much as consume their cloaths, nor their bodies, but went through al & struck them dead, and no body could tel how. Gods judgements do come in a way that is invisible: if it had been in a visible flame of fire, all would have seen it, and it would have burnt their cloaths, or their bodies: but you shall find in the 5. verse, That they were carried away from the Sanctuary in their cloaths, they were not burnt.
Another Note is this, That though the lives of men be dear and precious to God, yet they are not so precious as His glory.
The Glory of His Name is a thousand thousand times more dear unto God than the lives of thousand thousands of People; the lives of Nadab and Abihu must go, that God may be Sanctified: If it comes so in the way (as I may so say) the lives of men, and the Sanctifying of Gods Name, the Glory of God must pass on, and must have its course let the lives of men go which way they will.