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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.
Briefly, you Sin against Christ; but how execrable a thing is that in you that hope to be saved by Him! It is a terrible passage, in Heb. 10. 28.29. He that Despised Moses's Law died without mercy, of how much sorer Punishment shall he be thought worthy, that has trod under foot the Son of God! What, A sorer Punishment than a Death without mercy• Who Trembles not? Moses gave a Law, that a Passover to Typ••y a Messiah to come, should be observed: and it was a Death without mercy to omit the doing of it. ⟨p. 66⟩Well, Jesus has given a Law, that a Supper to Remember a Messiah already come, should be observed: and i• we omit it, we are worthy of more than, A Death without mercy, even, A Death without pity too It is no less than the Eternal Son of God, whose Commands you Violate; and you do moreover pretend such Relations to Him, that you are altogether Hardened and shameless if you don't Repent of this Violation. Shall not a Wife hearken to her Husband? but you seem to own the Lord Jesus Christ in that Relation; and you would lay hold on that word, Thy Maker is thy Husband, and thy Redeemer. Shall not a Child hearken to his Father? but you seem to own the Lord Jesus Christ in that Relation too; and you would not Renounce that Name of His, The Everlasting Father. Thy not coming to the Table of the Lord, is a Disobedience to the Husband and the Father of thy soul! Adam would hearken to a Wife, Jacob would hearken to a Child, yea, Naaman would hearken to a Servant: and will you be Disobedient unto the Lord Jesus Christ? Yea, you yourselves have hearkened unto the Devil a Million times: and shall the motions of the Saviour now be contempti•• with you? I would go on to say, 'Tis a Friend […] Matchless and a Peerless Friend, that now Invites you to a banquet with Him! but how Rude, how Vile, how Disingenuous are you to make Light of the invitation?
Breefly, you Sin against Christ; but how execrable a thing is that in you that hope to be saved by Him! It is a terrible passage, in Heb. 10. 28.29. He that Despised Moses's Law dy'd without mercy, of how much sorer Punishment shall he be thought worthy, that has trd under foot the Son of God! What, A sorer Punishment than a Death without mercy Who Trembles not? Moses gave a Law, that a Passover to Typy a Messiah to come, should be observed: and it was a Death without mercy to omitt the doing of it.