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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01867	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.]	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1648 (1648)	Wing B6084A; ESTC R173334	230,318	294

the Truths of God that I have delivered and so far as you have been wanting in any of these know so far you have taken Gods Name in vain in this holy Ordinance you have not been worthy receivers of this Sacrament you have cause to look back to your former waies and spend much humiliation for you sin herein and not to be so greedy of it as some are they must have the Communion but I put it to your Consciences have you repented you for the prophaning of Gods Name and that 's that that we should further have spoken of that God will be sanctified that 's thus if we do not sanctifie Gods Name it will quite turn to the contrary it is the proper end of the Sacrament to seal up our salvation but if we sanctifie not Gods Name it will seal up our condemnation if it hath not been thy endeavour to sanctifie the Name of God so many times as thou hast received the Sacrament so many seals hast thou upon thee for the sealing up of thy condemnation many mens or womens condemnations are sealed with three or four hundred seals may be But yet for thy comfort while thou art alive it is possible that these Seales may be broken open as we reade in the Revelations that John saw the Book that had seven seals upon it and none could be found that was able to open it at length the lamb that was slaine he was found worthy to open the Book So I say thy condemnation is sealed up with many seales and there is no Creature that is able to Cancel these seales only the Lamb Jesus Christ yea that Christ whose blood thou hast shed and been guilty of only he is worthy and he is willing to open these seales for as it was with those that did crucife Christ yet they were sav'd by the same blood that they had shed as in Acts 2. so though thou hast been guilty of shedding the blood of Christ againe and againe by thy prophane coming to the Sacrament yet know seeing there is life in thee and the day of grace is continued it is possible that thy soul may be sav'd by that blood that thou hast crucified O how many are cut off that have thus prophan'd the name of God in this Sacrament and never came to understand this danger they are cut off and now are undone for ever why blesse God that thou art alive to hear more about this Sacrament and how Gods Name should be sanctified that thou art alive and hast time to repent thee of this great evil of prophaning the Name of God in this holy Sacrament SERMON XIII 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 cleerly concerns us and that is To keep to the institution of the Sacrament for this is such a worship of God as depends meerly upon institution that is upon a positive Law upon the will of God there are some duties of worship which are naturall 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 punctuall upon them we must be very axact 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 wee find it in divers of the Evangelists in Matth. 26.26 there you shall finde that Christ and his Disciples they eate 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 communica●e must come to the Table as neer as they can as many as can sit about it and all to come as neer 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 eyes the death of Christ and the great mysteries of salvation and therefore it is according to the institution that every Communicant must bee where he may behold what is done he must be where he may see the breaking of the bread and the powring forth of the wine certainly it hath been a disorderly way therefore for people to sit up and down in their pews every where in the Congregation and for the Minister to goe up and downe after them so that they could see nothing nor scarce hear any thing it is much for the attaining to the end of the institution for all Communicants to look upon the breaking of the Bread and the powring forth of the Wine in the Sacrament and therefore all should come together and there as many as can sit at his Table or those that cannot neer to it and the rather because this is not only from the example of Christ that he did so though that 's somwhat but because it hath a spiritual significancy in it and that 's the reason that it should be done we find in Luke 22.26 the institution of the Sacrament now mark upon their coming and being with Christ at the Table saith Christ at the 29. and 30. verses and I appoint unto you a Kingdome as my Father hath appointed unto mee that you may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdome and sit on Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel He spake it upon that occasion of the Disciples sitting with him at the Table when they did eat bread and when they took the Cup upon that occasion Christ spoke to his Disciples and said I appoint to you a Kingdom that ye may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdome and so sit on Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel as if Christ should say you can sit with mee at my Table here and know that this sitting with me at my Table it is but as it were a praeludium a fore-signification of the Communion that you shall have with me in my Kingdome you shall have that familiar Communion with me when I come unto my Kingdome there to fit as it were with me to joyne with mee in my Kingdome judging the twelve Tribes of Israel even as you do now in that holy fellowship joyne with me in sitting at my Table this is the meaning of Christ so that the Gesture in the Sacrament is not a meer indifferent thing heretofore it hath been thought unreasonable to contend for