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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
Invitations to the SUPPER of the LORD, With a DISCOURSE on the Natu… › Application.
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Application.
May we then Universally and Conscientiously Observe the HOLY SUPPER, in Remembrance of our Glorious Lord. It is a Lamentable Thing to see what Multitudes, and Quantities among us do daily turn their Backs upon the Table of the Lord Jesus It is the Character of the Adult […], in Prov. 30.20. She eats, and Wipes her mouth and saith, I have done •o wickedness: this is the guise of wicked persons, about the Forbidden Dainties of Sin: but the Precious Dainties of Christ, find an Abuse Contrary, and yet Parallel, her-unto; tis the Folly of many persons, They eat not, and Wipe their mouths, and say, I have done no Wickedness; tho' it be a desperate and a Prodigious Wickedness which they are herein guilty of I must confess to you, That when I Muse on the horrible Neglect, and (therein) Contempt of the Lords Supper, which prevails in the midst of us; and this too among the Children of those, who have undergone the fatigues of coming to and Planting in an Howling Wilderness of America, that Theirs with Them might enjoy Unpolluted Sacraments; when I see great Shoals, and whole Scores of People going a way from the Table that has the Bread of Life upon it; then, The Fire Burns, my Heart is Hot within me, and I cannot Suppress the just indignation of my Sorrows at so Unchristian a practice in those that will yet be called Christians, and Challenge to themselves the Name begun at Antioch.
May we then Universally and Conscientiously Observe the HOLY SUPPER, in Remembrance of our Glorious Lord. It is a Lamentable Thing to see what Multitudes, and Quantites among us do daily turn their Backs upon the Table of the Lord Jesus It is the Charracter of the Adult 〈…〉, in Prov. 30.20. She eats, and Wipes her mouth and saith, I have done •o wickedness: this is the guise of wicked persons, about the Forbidden Dainties of Sin: but the Precious Dainties of Christ, find an Abuse Contrary, and yet Parralel, her-unto; tis the Folly of many persons, They eat not, and Wipe their mouths, and say, I have done no Wickedness; tho' it be a desperate and a Prodigious Wickedness which they are herein guilty of I must confess to you, That when I Muse on the horrible Neglect, and (therein) Contempt of the Lords Supper, which prevails in the midst of us; and this too among the Children of those, who have undergone the fatigues of coming to and Planting in an Howling Wilderness of America, that Theirs with Them might enjoy Unpolluted Sacraments; when I see great Shoals, and whole Scores of People going a way from the Table that has the Bread of Life upon it; then, The Fire Burns, my Heart is Hot within me, and I cannot Suppress the just indignation of my Sorrowes at so Unchristian a practice in those that will yet be called Christians, and Challenge to themselves the Name begun at Antich.