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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.
And your Example in this, which is always Evil, is yet more Hurtful, if you have any Reputation for Godliness among your Neighbours. If many a man be asked, Why he do's not come unto the Supper of the Lord? He will reply, such a man in the Neighbourhood is a Godly man, and he seeks it not: why then should I? Here is the bridge of the Trap, which it ruins many a filly little soul to Touch upon: thus thou that shouldest Keep thy brother, dost rather Kill him: for thou dost proclaim unto him, There is an Ordinance of the Lord Jesus Christ which I think I may be as well without as with!
And your Example in this, which is always Evil, is yet more Hurtful, if you have any Reputation for Godlyness among your Neighbours. If many a man be asked, Why he do's not come unto the Supper of the Lord? He will reply, such a man in the Neighbourhood is a Godly man, and he seeks it not: why then should I? Here is the bridge of the Trap, which it ruines many a filly little soul to Touch upon: thus thou that shouldest Keep thy brother, dost rather Kill him: for thou dost proclaim unto him, There is an Ordinance of the Lord Jesus Christ which I think I may be as well without as with!
But be assured, As the Lord will not hold that man Guiltless, who shall so Take His Name in Vain. So the blood, the Death of Souls will be sound in the Skirts of them that shall set a scandalous Example of Not coming to the Supper of the Lord.
But be assured, As the Lord will not hold that man Guiltless, who shall so Take His Name in Vain. So the blood, the Death of Souls will be sound in the Skirts of them that shall set a scandalous Exemple of Not coming to the Supper of the Lord.
In a word, Look and see, whether you can find any thing among the worst of men to Equalize, and so to Justify, the Iniquity of this Omission. As 'twas said in