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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.
PREPARATIONS for the SUPPER of the LORD With The MARKS of a Good State, by which Communicants may be assisted in the Work of Self-Examination.
1 Cor. XI. 28. But let a Man Examine himself, and so let him Eat of that Bread, and Drink of that Cup.
TIS a Passage Registered and Recorded in some Ancient Histories, that the Priest going to Sacrifice, would ask Who is here? and that Answer was usually given to him, [Greek or Hebrew], There are none but good men amongst us. We are now drawing near to a Sacred and a Solemn ⟨p. 82⟩Ordinance, wherein the Lord Jesus will take a special Observation of them that are admitted thereunto; unless it may truly be said of us, They are good men, we can expect nothing but our own confusion in the Displeasure of Him That will not be mocked.
TIS a Passage Registred and Recorded in some Ancient Histories, that the Priest going to Sacrifice, would ask Who is here? and that Answer was usually given to him, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, There are none but good men amongst us. We are now drawing near to a Sacred and a Solemn ⟨p. 82⟩