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Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness
Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness: wherein several important duties, are urged, and the evil of divers common sins, is evinced; delivered in sundry sermons. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green upon assignment of Samuel Sewall, 1682
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.
The Lords Supper is an Ordinance Which Believers are under an indispensable Obligation to Observe.
1 COR. 11. 25. This do ye.
IN this Context, the Apostle taketh notice of some abuses and profanations, which the Corinthians were guilty of, with respect unto that sacred Ordinance of the Lords Supper. And in order to a Reformation thereof, he puts them in mind of, and endeavours to reduce them unto the Primitive Institution.
In this, with the two preceding verses, the Apostle declareth what Christ did and said; at the time when he first instituted, and administered the Lords Supper; as also the principal end for which that Ordinance was ordained, so, to be a ⟨p. 118⟩commemoration of the death of Christ, and so of the Redemption purchased thereby.
In this, with the two preceding verses, the Apostle declareth what Christ did and said; at the time when he first insti•uted, and administred the Lords Supper; as also the principal end for which that Ordinance was ordained, so, to be a