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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
We do not know what danger we incur when we come negligently to the Lords Supper. You see in 1 Cor. 11. That their negligent coming to the Lords Supper, because 1they did not discern the Lords Body, that is, because they did not discern the holiness, the preciousness and excellency of his body, because they did not consider the holiness of that duty; therefore saith the Text, the Lord struck many of them with sickness, and some with death. It was certainly some contagion, some sickness at that time more then ordinary. And if you compare it with that before mentioned of the Bethshemites, you may see plainly that it is the Lords ordinary course to inflict ⟨p. 191⟩a more then ordinary judgement upon those that are profaners of holy things: therefore we may well say among other causes, that the unholy coming to the Lords Table is the cause of that great plague that of late hath been in this place.
We do not know what danger we incur when we come negligently to the Lords Supper. You see in 1 Cor. 11. That their negligent coming to the Lords Supper, because 1they did not discern the Lords Body, that is, because they did not discern the holinesse, the preciousnesse and excellency of his body, because they did not consider the holinesse of that duty; therefore saith the Text, the Lord strook many of them with sicknesse, and some with death. It was certainly some contagion, some sicknesse at that time more then ordinary. And if you compare it with that before mentioned of the Bethshemites, you may see plainly that it is the Lords ordinary course to inflict ⟨p. 191⟩a more then ordinary judgement upon those that are prophaners of holy things: therefore we may well say among other causes, that the unholy coming to the Lords Table is the cause of that great plague that of late hath been in this place.
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