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A companion for communicants. Discourses upon the nature, the design, and the subject of…
A companion for communicants. Discourses upon the nature, the design, and the subject of the Lords Supper; with devout methods of preparing for, and approaching to that blessed ordinance. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church at Boston. ; [Seven lines from Augustine]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris, 1690
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.
Come then, Let not our Dead men be set at the Supper of the Living God. There was indeed an Ancient and a Foolish Abuse of the Sacrament (condemned by a Carthaginian Coun••) wherein Dead Corpses had the Elements of the Holy Supper put into their mouths But let not them that are Dead in Trespasses and Sins, be told that they shall reap any Advantage by this Ordinance, till they Arise from the Dead, and Christ shall give them Life. What shall a Canaanite have to do in the House of the Lord of Hosts? Let ⟨p. 56⟩us write upon our Church Doors that Ancient Canon, [Greek or Hebrew]
Come then, Let not our Dead men be set at the Supper of the Living God. There was indeed an Ancient and a Foolish Abuse of the Sacrament (condemned by a Carthaginian Coun••) wherein Dead Corpses had the Elements of the Holy Supper put into their mouths But let not them that are Dead in Trespasses and Sins, be told that they shall reap any Advantage by this Ordinance, till they Arise from the Dead, and Christ shall give them Life. What shall a Can•anite have to do in the House of the Lord of Hosts? Let ⟨p. 56⟩us write upon our Church Doors that Ancient Canon, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉
None but a Disciple may be a Communicant. I conclude in the words of the Holy Herbert,Avoid, profaneness come not here Nothing but Holy, pure, and clear. Or, That which Groaneth to be so May at his peril further go.
None but a Disciple may be a Communicant. I conclude in the words of the Holy Herbert,Avoid, profaneness come not here Nothing but Holy, pure, and clear. Or, That which Groan•th to be so May at his peril further go.