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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.
Secondly, Whence arise those Tears which you are now hurried and harassed with! You find many Misgiving and Recoilings of your minds, against your coming to the Lord Jesus in the Sacrament; but may it not be sa••, as in Gal. •. 8. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. As for the Holy Spirit, He calls and says Come to this Ordinance, O come with an Hungry, Thirsty perishing Soul. May it not then be the Evil Spirit, which gives you an Evil Counsel, to stay away? You may observe it, That the sincerest Christians, when they are engaging in that solemn, serious, awful work of. Entering into Church Fellowship, they find themselves wonderfully Distracted in their minds; there arise those Commotions and Confusions in them, which they […] before felt the like unto. This now is but a sign, […] at it is a good work which you are new upon: if it were not so, the Devil […] be so ••ily to divert you from it, or to disturb […] in it.
Secondly, Whence arise those Tears which you are now hurried and harassed with! You find many Misgiving and Recoylings of your minds, against your coming to the Lord Jesus in the Sacrament; but may it not be sa••, as in Gal. •. 8. This perswasion cometh not of him that calleth you. As for the Holy Spirit, He calls and says Come to this Ordinance, O come with an Hungry, Thirsty perishing Soul. May it not then be the Evil Spirit, which gives you an Evil Counsil, to stay away? You may observe it, That the sincerest Christians, when they are engaging in that solemn, serious, awful work of. Entring into Church Fellowship, they find themselves wonderfully Distracted in their minds; there arise those Commotions and Confusions in them, which they 〈…〉 before felt the like unto. This now is but a sign, 〈…〉 at it is a good work which you are new upon: if it were not so, the Devil 〈…〉 be so ••ily to divert you from it, or to disturb 〈…〉 in it.