This morning two further Banner Trustees spoke very helpfully. Jeff Kingswood from Canada spoke from Acts 12 on prayer and Robert Strivens, now at Bradford on Avon, spoke on Puritan worship. Robert spoke on why the reformation of worship was so important to the Puritans, how it was rooted in a very high view of God and of Christ and some of the lessons to be learned. We had lots of good quotations from Charnock Perkins, Owen and Burroughs. Here is one from Owen on delighting in worship.
Now this delight in the worship of God so much commended in the Scripture and proposed unto our example consists not in any carnal self pleasing or satisfaction in the outward modes or manner of the performance of divine worship but it is a holy soul refreshing contemplation on the will, wisdom, grace and condescension of God in that he is pleased of his own sovereign mere will and grace so to manifest himself unto such poor sinful creatures as we are, so to condescend unto our weakness, so to communicate himself unto us so to excite and draw forth our souls unto himself and to give us such pledges of his gracious intercourse with us by Jesus Christ. By the contemplation of these things is the soul drawn forth to delight in God.
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