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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.
Consider, First.
It is a very Great Iniquity that you are Chargeable withal; 'tis a Scarlet, and a Crimson Sin.
It is a very Great Iniquity that you are Chargeable withall; 'tis a Scarlet, and a Crimson Sin.
For,
First, It is a Disobedience to the Commands of the Lord Jesus Christ. Surely, Tis beyond Question with you, That the Lord Jesus Christ has Commanded His Disciples to celebrate an Holy Supper in Remembrance of Him. Indeed, the English Nation has of late years been infested with a Sort of men called Quakers, that have gone to Evacuate this Blessed▪ Institution of our Lord; but These are a Sort of Blasphemous Heretics, that would Seduce us to give up our whole Religion, and Embark our Souls no more on that Bottom, which all the Saints have hitherto been Saved upon; ⟨p. 64⟩There is hardly any, other Ordinance which our Saviour has appointed for our Benefit, but these Filthy Dreamers have endeavoured the Extirpation of it; no wonder then that This is vilified and Reproached by them! and yet these Prodigious Hypocrites, while they cavil at the Lords Supper as a Ceremony, can at the same time advance their own Ceremonial Fooleries, of Thee and Thou, and the Hat, into the Catalogue of things important to Salvation: They introduce those Diabolical Sacraments, while they abolish those which our dearest Lord has instituted; and as they would poison us with a New Digestion of that Vomit which the U lean Creatures of the former Ages, have cast up, so they Labour to infect our Eucharist with an Extraordinary and Peculiar Venom.