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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

God to have As now in the duty of Praise Psa 66.2 Make his praise glorious that is do it so as you may lift up His Name in it and that God may be glorious in your praise And Rom. 1.21 there the Apostle speaking of the Heathens he doth rebuke them For what It was for this because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful now this is spoken especially of the worship of God for he saith afterwards ver 23. that they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible men c So that it 's spoken of the worship of God that they glorified not God as God That is then to sanctifie Gods Name to glorifie God as God and therefore our Savior in the 4. of John when he spake to the woman of Samaria he tels her that God is a Spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and truth that is we must labour to suit our worship to what there is in God that our worship may be proportionable in some measure even to the nature of God himself And therefore God being a Spirit his Worship mu ● be a Divine Worship I have read of some of the Heathens that did worship the Sun for a God and they would offer to the Sun somewhat sutable therefore because they did so admire at the swiftness of the motion of the Sun they would not offer a snail to the Sun but a flying horse a horse with wings now a horse is one of the swiftest creatures and the strongest creature to continue in motion for a long time together and they added wings to the horse and they thought that sutable to be a sacrifice for the Sun So when we come to wor● ip God that is to Sanctifie his Name we must behave our selves so as to give him the glory that is fit for a God to have As now in those three particular which I opened to you when I shewed you wherein we draw nigh to God This was one I told you that when we come to Worship God we come to tender up some present to God now then we must tender up such a present as is sutable to Gods excellency If a man should come to a poor man to give a present if it were not worth twelve pence yet it may be taken well but if you were to tender up a present to a Prince a Monarch an Emperour then you must tender a present that is fit for the quality of the person Therefore in Malachi 1.8 When the Lord rebukes them for their Sacrifices that they were such poor things Go saith God and tender up this to your Governour and see whether he will accept of it or no. So certainly that which may be accepted of by a mean man would be accounted a scorn if you should tender it up to a Prince or an Emperour Now when we come to Worship God we must consider that we are to tender up our service to God who is the great King of Kings and Lord of Lords But you will say Is it possible for any creature when it comes to tender up it's worship to God to tender up that which is fit for a God to have This may rather be a discouragement unto Prayer or any other duty of Worship than an incouragement To that I Answer thus Though we be very poor and mean yet it doth not hinder but we may tender up that to God which God wil acknowledge to be sutable to his infinit excellency as First If we tender up to God all that we have Though we be never so poor and mean yet if God hath the strength of our souls God accepts it For we are to know that God doth not stand in need of what we have or of what we do but that we might shew our respect to him Therefore if we give al that we have God accepts it As a Child if it puts forth all it's strength that it hath to do a busines which the father bids him whether the busines be done or no the father looks upon it and accepts it as sutable to the childs strength and it shews the respect that the child hath to his fa her And as it is st●●ied of an Emperour that when a poor man had nothing to offer him but a little water that he had taken up with his hand he having nothing else the Emperour accepts of it So that s that which God looks for that the Creature should lift him above all If therefore when thou comest to worship God God hath more of thy heart than ever any creature in the world had God accepts of that and that you must look unto Can you say so when you go to Worship God Lord it is true there is much weaknes in my spirit but thou that knowest al things knowest That thou hast more of my heart than ever any creature in the world had This is sutable to God God wil account this in the Covenant of grace to be a present sutable to Himself As in the Law when they offered to the building of the Temple every one could not offer gold and silver and precious ●●ones but some came and offered Badgers-skins and some women did spin and offered Goats-haire to the building of the Temple and so God accepted of that being the most they could do 2 In the Second place When we do not only offer unto God the most we can but when we adde to this the grief of our Souls that we can do no more when the Soul shall strive to the uttermost it can and when it hath done all saith I am an unprofitable servant Oh that I could do more This is sutable to God 3 Thirdly The People of God though they be weak yet the weakest Servant of God is able to offer up to God somewhat that is sutable to the infinite Majesty of God upon this Third Ground because there is a kind of impression of Gods infinitnes in those services that a gracious heart doth tender unto God and therefore sutable unto God You will say God is an Infinite Glorious God Be it so He is Infinit that 's certain but the duty of Worship that a gracious heart tenders unto God it hath an impression of Gods infinitness upon it How is that If that can be made out then indeed we may be encouraged to Worship God Thus That that a gracious heart tenders up to God hath an impression of His inf nitness in this regard because as God hath no limits of His Being so a gracious heart when it comes to worship God will not propound any limit or bound● but in the desires of it would ●ain be enlarged infinitly if it could If it were possible for a creature to be enlarged to God infini ly it would be Here lies I concei●e the main difference between the most glorious Hypocrite in the world and one that hath true Grace yea that hath but

the more I have of these the more shall I enjoy of God the more happy shall I be both here and for ever Now I had thought to have given you some Reasons why the Name of God must be Sanctified only I beseech you by all that hath been said go away with this thought what little cause is there that any of us should rest upon any of our duties If this be required of us thus to Sanctifie the Name of God in duty I say we have little cause any of us to rest on any duties that we performe There are many poor creatures that have no other Saviors to rest upon but their Prayers and coming to Church and taking the Communion Now if in all these the Lord expects that thou shouldst thus Sanctifie his Name Thou hast little cause to rest upon any thing that thou hast done thou hast cause rather to go alone and mourne for taking the Name of God in vain in the duties of His Worship Rest not in any of your performances labor to performe duties as well as you can but when you have done know that you are unprofitable servants after all and renounce all as in the point of Justification and rest upon something else otherwise you are undone for ever SERMON VII LEVITICUS 10.3 I will be Sanctified in them that come nigh me WEE are coming now to the conclusion of this great Argument of Sanctifying Gods Name in holy duties for the generall Stepney Dec. 28. 1645. God expects that we should all in our drawings neer to Him in the duties of Worship Sanctifie his Name Now we are to consider of divers Reasons why God will be Sanctified in all the duties of His Worship 1 The First Reason is this It is the very nature of God to Will Himself the last end and all other things to work suitable to the lifting up of Himself as the last end I say it is as essential to Him as any thing for Him to will Himselfe as the highest end and that all things should work so as to be sutable unto that Glory of His for the furtherance of it God should cease to be God if so be He should not will Himselfe as the highest end and so will that all things that have any being should some way or other work for Himself This is the very nature of God It is that which I conceive the very nature of Gods Holiness consists in the willing Himself as the last end and so to work all things as sutable unto His own infinit Excellency Now as this is Gods holiness so it is the holiness that that God requires in His creatures that are capable of holines that they should will Him as the last end and all things sutable to that infinite excellency of His. Now if this be the nature of God and this be His holiness then certainly it must needs be a necessary duty in al those that would have cōmunion with God and would honor God to wil as God himself doth will that is that all things should work sutable to the infinite excellency of God that God may attaine the Glory of His infinite Excellency and this makes it to be a necessarie duty that when wee come to Worship Him wee should Sanctifie his Name So that the first reason is taken from the very nature of God it is the very being of God that all things should work to Himself and in such a sutable way as to lift up his Excellency and Glory 2 Secondly We must Sanctifie God in the duties of His Worship because it is the speciall glory that God hath in the world to be actively honoured for his passive glory that is to be glorified in a passive way that he hath in Hell but the special glory that God would have it is that He might be glorified actively Now there is no such way of glorifying the Name of God actively as by worshipping of Him in a holy manner and therefore God stands much upon this That when we come to worship Him we sanctifie His Name For saith God If I be not sanctified in my worship what active glory have I in the world It is the special active glory that God hath in the world the Sanctifying of His Name in the duties of His Worship 3 Thirdly That which we have intimated before That the duties of Gods Worship are the most precious things the special conveyances of the choice mercies that He intends to bestow on His Saints and therefore though He loses His glory in any thing else He would not lose it in that wherein He doth especially convey His mercy and goodness to His people But that we spake too in shewing how we draw nigh to God in holy duties and it may well come in here again as an Argument why we should sanctifie Gods Name 4 A Fourth Reason is this Because there is no way for us to be fitted for the receiving of Mercy from God through those duties of Worship but by our sanctifying of Gods Name when thou comest at any time to worship God What wouldest thou have there is some communion that thou wouldest enjoy with God now there is no way to make thee a f●t subject of Mercy or capable of the enjoyment of Communion with God but by such a behaviour of Soul as this is that hath been spoken of to Sanctif e the Name of God thou wouldest be loth to lose those duties of Worship that thou doest perform therefore it is required of thee to Sanctifie His Name lest thou doest lose all for 't is this that makes thee the only capable subject of what good is to be had there 5 We must Sanctifie Gods Name in holy duties because otherwise we should certainly never hold out in duties but vanish and come to nothing now God would be worshipped so by His creatures as to be constantly worshiped He would have those that do worship Him to worship Him alwaies to worship Him for ever and He would have this Worship that we perform to Him but to be the beginning of that eternal Worship that he shall have from us in Heaven And so the Saints do Worship God now the Worship wich they perform it is but as the beginning of that Worship that hereafter in Heaven they shall tender up to God though there may be some difference in it as there our prayers will be turned into praises and it will not be in such outward Ordinances as now we worship God in there will be no Preaching nor Sacraments yet notwithstanding the Soul-worship that is now will be in effect the same as it shall be in Heaven God would have us so to worship Him as to continue to worship Him Now I say unless His Name be Sanctified in our worshiping of Him we will certainly fall off and the truth is This is the very ground of all Apostacie in Hypocrites Some that have been very forward in the Worshipping of God when they were young

God shall have no place in the heart If a temptation to sin comes that hath a place in the heart but when the Word comes that hath no place in the heart I say it is a very sad thing that we can find no room for the Word we should get room for the Word Open ye gates Stand open ye everlasting doors that the King of Glory may come in Know that when you come to hear the Word the Lord is knocking at the doors of your hearts have not you felt it sometimes Open Oh open the doors let all be opened to receive the Word into your hearts That is the Second thing for the behaviour of the Soul in hearing 3 The third thing is the careful applying of the Word so in Pro. 2.2 There must be an applying of the heart to the word and an applying of the word unto the heart All action is by an application of the thing that doth act unto the subject there must be an application of the word to thy soul as now Suppose thou comest to hear the Word and thou hearest of some sin that it may be thou knowest thou art guilty of take the Word and lay it to thy heart and say The Lord hath met with my soul this day the Lord hath spoken to me to the end that I might be humbled for this sin and the other sin that my Conscience tels me I am guilty of So doth the Lord put thee upon a duty that concerns thee acknowledge this the Lord hath spoken to me this day and put me upon the reformation of my family and the reformation of my own heart Is there a word presented apply that and let not the trouble of thy heart cause thee to cast off that word that God hath spoken to thee The application of the word to the heart it is of marveilous use and it concerns not only Ministers in general to lay before people the Doctrine of the Gospel but to apply it And know that it concerns you as well as Ministers to apply it And not only when they come to that that is called use but all the way in the opening of the Word it concerns you all to apply it to your own souls and to consider How doth it concern me in particular My brethren there is no such way to honour God or get good to your own souls as the application of the Word unto your selves As a man that is asleep if there be annoise made it will not awake him so soon but come and call him by his name and say John or Thomas and that will awake him sooner than a greater noise will So when the Word makes a noise when it is delivered only in the general men take little notice of it but when the Word comes particularly to the souls of men and doth as it were call them by name thi awakens them now God many times doth speak to your hearts but you should apply it you know the word is compared to meat and it must be applyed to the body Then do we worship God in a right way when as we take notice of Gods Word as concerning us in particular as that notable Scripture that you have in 1 Cor. 14.25 Where there comes a poor man into the Church of God and hears Prophesying hears the Word opened and the text saith He is c nvinced of all 〈…〉 and then in verse 25. Thus are the secrets of his heart manifes● and 〈◊〉 falling down on his face he worship● God and reports that God is in you of a truth that is when the Word comes and meets with his Soul in particular that he finds himself to be aim'd at by the Word then he worships God and saith that God certainly is in them here 's the reason now that when you come to hear the word you do not worship God because you apply it not to your selves you are ready to say this was well spoken to such a one and it concerns such a one but how doth it concern thy soul in particular Sometimes the Lord doth even force men and women to apply it whether they will or no for that they think the Minister speaks to them in particular and that no body was spoken too in the Congregation but themselves This is a Mercy when the Lord doth it unto you but it is a greater Mercy when the Lord gives you a heart to apply it to your selves and although it may trouble you a little for the present yet be willing to apply it and account it a great Mercy from the Lord That the Lord will be pleased to speak in particular to your Souls 4 Fourthly We must mix Faith with the Word or otherwise it will do us but little good Apply it and then beleeve it In Heb. 4.2 it is said that The Word preached did not profit them not being mixed with Faith in them that heard it Wherefore there must be a mixture of Faith to beleeve the word that the Lord brings unto you Now concerning that I 'le but propound these few particulars You will say Must we beleeve every thing that is spoken sometimes there are some things spoken that we cannot tell how to beleeve I do not mean so to beleeve every thing meerly being spoken for you must take heed what you hear as well as how you hear but do thus much at least 1 〈◊〉 the First place Whatsoever comes in the Name of God to you except you know certainly it is not according to the written Word you owe so much respect to it as to examine it at least to try it whether it be so or no as it is said of those Wel-bred men that I spake of that they did examine whether things were so or no. Do not cast off any thing presently that comes in the Name of God Now any thing that hath the broad Seal upon it you must not disobey You will say It may be counterfeit but do not disobey it till you be sure it be counterfeit Oh that men would give but this respect to all things that they hear never to cast them off till they have examined and tryed whether they be so or no. 2 Secondly Do but grant this respect to the Word that is spoken to you as to think thus What it all that I hear spoken against my sin which laies open the dangerous condition that my soul is in prove to be true what a case were I in then This hath been the beginning of the conversion of many Souls the having but such a thought as this It may be things are not so terrible as I hear but what if they do prove so then I am undone for ever Dare I venture my Soul and my eternal estate upon hopes that these things are not so bad as I hear I beleeve if you would put your selves to it you would think it a bold adventure and the comfort that any of you have grounded upon this meerly hoping that things are