A26957:172
Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B
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.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1696
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Object. But would the Son of God be hanged and crucified? could Heaven have suffered this? could not the Saviour of the World save himself? how could he then save me?
Answ. Hadst thou not the blindness of the Jews, thou couldest not reason thus like them; but was it not necessary it should be so? Did not the Prophets foretell his death, and such a death? Had he not died, and died as he did, I might then have had some ground to doubt him whether he were the Messiah or not, for it was needful that the Prophecies should be fulfilled, Dan. 9. But yet as wretched and as contemptible a going out of the world as he had, and his manner of dying on the Cross, how vile soever it seemed ⟨p. 112⟩to be, yet was there not enough to silence all the doubts that could possibly from thence arise, and much for the confirmation of my faith in the wonderful Eclipse of the Sun, the rending of the veil of the Temple, the opening of the Graves, the raising of the dead, and afterwards his own rising the third day, and ascending up to Heaven in a Cloud? If my faith might have staggered in seeing him on the Cross dying, it could not when it saw him risen, and in the Clouds ascending.
Answ. Hadst thou not the blindness of the Jews, thou couldest not reason thus like them; but was it not necessary it should be so? Did not the Prophets foretell his death, and such a death? Had he not died, and died as he did, I might then have had some ground to doubt him whether he were the Messias or not, for it was needful that the Prophecies should be fulfilled, Dan. 9. But yet as wretched and as contemptible a going out of the world as he had, and his manner of dying on the Cross, how vile soever it seemed ⟨p. 112⟩to be, yet was there not enough to silence all the doubts that could possibly from thence arise, and much for the confirmation of my faith in the wonderful Eclipse of the Sun, the rending of the veil of the Temple, the opening of the Graves, the raising of the dead, and afterwards his own rising the third day, and ascending up to Heaven in a Cloud? If my faith might have staggered in seeing him on the Cross dying, it could not when it saw him risen, and in the Clouds ascending.