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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.
The other is, a Consequent Duty, and it is propounded as likewise a Privilege to be enjoyed by those that upon Examination find themselves ready for it.
The other is, a Consequent Duty, and it is propounded as likewise a Priviledg to be enjoy'd by those that upon Examination find themselves ready for it.
And so let him eat of that Bread, and Drink of that Cup.] So! That So, is, as one says upon it, An Hedge planted against every Intrusion. Tis not an Exercise which every man is immediately to be put upon. The Gospel, that is to be Preached unto every Creature: But ⟨p. 84⟩the Supper of the Lord is only for those who upon a Self-Examination find themselves to be Subjects capable and convenient for it. And behold here a direct Contradiction to a notorious Heresy and Sacrilege in the False Apostatical Church of Rome. The Apostle says, There is Bread now to be Eaten: the Synagogue of Rome says, No, 'tis not Bread but the very Flesh and Blood of our Lord. The Apostle says, Let any Believer Drink of the Cup: the Synagogue of Rome says, No, let none but a Bigoted Clergy-man taste a Drop of it. What an Opposition is here? O my People, come out of that Babylon, saith the Lord.
And so let him eat of that Bread, and Drink of that Cup.] So! That So, is, as one sayes upon it, An Hedge planted against every Intrusion. Tis not an Exercise which every man is immediately to be put upon. The Gospel, that is to be Preached unto every Creature: But ⟨p. 84⟩the Supper of the Lord is only for those who upon a Self-Examination find themselves to be Subjects capable and convenient for it. And behold here a direct Contradiction to a notorious Heresie and Sacriledg in the False Aposratical Church of Rome. The Apostle sayes, There is Bread now to be Eaten: the Synagogue of Rome sayes, No, 'tis not Bread but the very Flesh and Blood of our Lord. The Apostle sayes, Let any Believer Drink of the Cup: the Synagogue of Rome sayes, No, let none but a Bigotted Clergy-man tast a Drop of it. What an Opposition is here? O my People, come out of that Babylon, saith the Lord.