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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.
He […] again. The Multitude▪ is but a more plentiful ••rel for the Fire. This I say lest any should […] the Church for its Numerousness; Let him rather […] to make it Good. In Act. Ho•.•4.
He 〈…〉 again. The Multitude▪ is but a more plentiful ••rel for the Fire. This I say lest any should 〈…〉 the Church for its Numerousness; Let him rather 〈…〉 to make it Good. In Act. Ho•.•4.
Yea, ever now and then in his famous Writings, He tells us, That the Introducing ⟨p. 57⟩of Unworthy Multitudes, into the Church, was a thing of most intolerable consequence; that it made the Church, A Fold for Beasts, and A stable for camels and Asses; & brought a most unsufferable Reproach upon the Name of God; and that it had a pernicious Tendency to Debauch and infect the whole Fl•ck, which such scabbed Sheep were admitted into; and that it would procure unto the careless Pastors, nothing but shame in this, and pain and grief in another World.
Yea, ever now and then in his famous Writings, He tells us, That the Introducing ⟨p. 57⟩of Unworthy Multitudes, into the Church, was a thing of most intollerable consequence; that it made the Church, A Fold for Beasts, and A stable for •amels and Asses; & brought a most unsufferable Reproach upon the Name of God; and that it had a pernicious Tendency to Debauch and infect the whole Flck, which such scabbed Sheep were admitted into; and that it would procure unto the careless Pastors, nothing but shame in this, and pain and grief in another World.