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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
PREPARATIONS for the SUPPER of the LORD With The MARKS of a Good St… › Proposition 1: Proposition I.
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This is, with a double Inculcation pressed by the Great Apostle, in 2 Cor.13.[…]. Examine your selves, whether ye be in the Faith; prove your own selves. Tis an Exact scrutiny, not only like that of a Touch Stone upon a Metal, but also like that of a Piercer into a Vessel; to see whether we are in such a State as all true Believers are.
This is, with a double Inculcation pressed by the Great Apostle, in 2 Cor.13.〈…〉. Examine your selves, whether ye be in the Faith; prove your own selves. Tis an Exact serutiny, not only like that of a Touch Stone upon a Metal, but also like that of a Piercer into a Vessel; to see whether we are in such a State as all true Beleevers are.
The Self Examination proper for us, is, The Reflection of our Conscious upon our own motions, Comparing them with the word of God, and Concluding from them, our being either the Heirs of Life, or the Sons of Death.
The Self Examination proper for us, is, The Reflection of our Consci••ous upon our own motions, Comparing them with the word of God, and Concluding from them, our being either the Heirs of Life, or the Sons of Death.
The Agent in this business is to be our Conscience; which is, A power in our Souls, passing Judgment on us, as under the Judgment of God. Our Conscience is to set up a Tribunal in our Souls, whereat we are to call our selves to an Account as before the Eternal God; whose Deputy, and Vic•gerent our Conscience is.