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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.
Conclusion 3.
For a man to be mistaken about his own Good State is a thing of the Illest Consequence in the World.
If a man be indeed in a Good State, and perceive it not; what follows but a world of inconveniences? The Person is perhaps like Daniel, one greatly Beloved! yet, not having Assurance of it, be wrongs Himself by perpetual Disquietments and Vexations; and albeit he be travelling towards Canaan, he must always cry out as a Christian in Horror did, I am in a Roaring Wilderness of Woe! He wrongs ⟨p. 92⟩Religion too; and brings up an Evil Report o• it, among Strangers; as it at were but a Black Mopish, Melancholy Thing. And he gratified the Devil exceedingly; who because he, do Envy him for, would therefore Deprive him of the Peace which the Lord Jesus has left as His Legacy unto us.
If a man be indeed in a Good State, and perceive it not; what follows but a world of inconveniencies? The Person is perhaps like Daniel, one grearly Beloved! yet, not having Assurance of it, be wrongs Himself by perpetual Disquietments and Vexations; and albeit he be travelling towards Canaan, he must alwayes cry out as a Christian in Horrour did, I am in a Roaring Wilderness of Wo! He wrongs ⟨p. 92⟩Religion too; and brings up an Evil Report o• it, among Strangers; as it at were but a Blac Mopish, Melancholly Thing. And he gratified the Divel exceedingly; who because he, do Envy him for, would therefore Deprive him of the Peace which the Lord Jesus has left as His Legacy unto us.