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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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The Object which our Conscience is to act upon, is, The motion of our hearts and lives. Every motion of our Inward or Outward man, that ha's any Tendency to discover what we are; the sense of our mind, the choice of our w•lls, the Bent of our Afflictions, and the Tenor of our whole walk, must a severe Inquisition be made into.
The Object which our Conscience is to act upon, is, The motion of our hearts and lives. Every motion of our Inward or Outward man, that ha's any Tendency to discover what we are; the sence of our mind, the choice of our w•lls, the Bent of our Afflictions, and the Tenour of our whole walk, must a severe Inquisition be made into.
The Rule according to which Conscience is to proceed in this concern is, The word of God; o• what God ha's Revealed in the sacred Scriptures. Not the Opinions and Practices of m•n; nor indeed any Suggestions but what are Consonant unto the Faithful sayings of our Bible, are to be Regarded in this affair: according to That, they who do not speak, have us light in them.
The Rule according to which Conscience is to proceed in this concern is, The word of God; o• what God ha's Revealed in the sacred Scriptures. Not the Opinions and Practices of m•n; nor indeed any Suggestions but what are Consonant unto the Faithfull sayings of our Bible, are to be Regarded in this affayr: according to That, they who do not speak, have us light in them.
The Work which Conscience ha's now to do, is To draw Conclusions from hence, and to frame Inferences with References to our Spiritual Stae before the Lord it is to pronounce whether the Promises of God, or whether the Threatenings of God, are our portion; tis in short, whether Life Eternal or Death Eternal, whether Salvation or Damnation will be the issue of the Condition which we are at present in Tis, by the Syisms of Conscience that Self-Examination is to be performed. Our Consciences must shape an Argument, from a Comparison between Gods word, and our