A26957:87
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
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Direct. 6. When you come to the holy Communion, let not the over-scrupulous regard of the person of the Minister, or the company, or the imperfections of the ministration, disturb your meditations, nor call away your minds from the high and serious employment of the day. Hypocrites who place their Religion in bodily exercises, have taught many weak Christians to take up unnecessary scruples, and to turn their ⟨p. 35⟩eye and observation too much to things without them.
Direct. 6. When you come to the holy Communion, let not the over-scrupulous regard of the person of the Minister, or the company, or the imperfections of the ministration, disturb your meditations, nor call away your minds from the high and serious imployment of the day. Hypocrites who place their Religion in bodily exercises, have taught many weak Christians to take up unecessary scruples, and to turn their ⟨p. 35⟩eye and observation too much to things without them.
Quest. But should we have no regard to the due celebration of these sacred Mysteries, and to the Minister, and communicants, and manner of Administration?
Answ. Yes: You should have so much regard to them, 1. As to see that nothing be amiss through your default, which is in your power to amend. 2. And that you join not in the committing of any known sin. But, 1. Take not every sin of another for your sin, and think not that you are guilty of that in others, which you cannot amend; or, that you must forsake the Church and worship of God, for these corruptions which you are not guilty of; or deny your own mercies, because others usurp them or abuse them. 2. If you suspect any thing imposed upon you to be sinful to you, try it before you come thither; and leave not your minds open to disturbance, when they should be wholly employed with Christ.