Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B

Name: Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B
Author: Richard Baxter

Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B. ; to which is added suitable meditations before, in, and after receiving ; with divine hymns in common tunes, fitted for public congregations or private families.Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B. ; to which is added suitable meditations before, in, and after receiving ; with divine hymns in common tunes, fitted for publick congregations or private families.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1696

[11], 172, [6] p. · 35k words · Wing B1310 · ESTC R5693

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A Pathetical Meditation on the Passion of Christ; to be read by Come…: A Pathetical Meditation on the Passion of Christ; to be read by Communicants before the…A Pathetical Meditation on the Passion of Christ; to be read by Com…: A Pathetical Meditation on the Passion of Christ; to be read by Communicants before the…

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God speaks.] What! stays he longer to trouble my patience! I say, be gone thou cursed; though thou art my creature, know that my wrath hath kindled on better creatures than thou art; get thee to Hell, and the howling Devils will tell thee as much.

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The sinner speaks] Ah, woe, woe, woe to me, for ever cursed I am, and cursed must I go for ever, My righteous Judge, and ye Glorious Angels adieu for ever: Live, live for ever blessed and happy in his love; I might have lived, and joyed, and gloried in that God that made both ye and me; but like a wretch that I am, woe that ever I was born, I sold his favour, and so my eternal life, for a thing of nought, a vain lust, a sinful pleasure that lasted but for a season, and I go, I go into eternal flames. What says my heart to this Methinks the very thoughts of it do make my heart to quiver, and my flesh to shake all round about me; I feel no strength in all my joints.

The sinner speaks] Ah, wo, wo, wo to me, for ever cursed I am, and cursed must I go for ever, My righteous Judge, and ye Glorious Angels adieu for ever: Live, live for ever bless'd and happy in his love; I might have lived, and joyed, and gloried in that God that made both ye and me; but like a wretch that I am, wo that ever I was born, I sold his favour, and so my eternal life, for a thing of nought, a vain lust, a sinful pleasure that lasted but for a season, and I go, I go into eternal flames. What says my heart to this Methinks the very thoughts of it do make my heart to quiver, and my flesh to shake all round about me; I feel no strength in all my joints.

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God speaks] So, so, I am glad something moves thee. But think again, that the Devil did take hold of thee, and drag thee from the place thou fittest on, to Hell; suppose the Father frowning on thee, and all the Angels shouting thee down to Hell, and glorying in thy damnation; but think

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Bookseller

Tho. Parkhurst

Year

1696

Size

[11], 172, [6] p.

Words

34,751

Catalogue

Wing B1310 · ESTC R5693

Text

EEBO-TCP A26957

Passages

341

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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