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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.
But suppose the man to be not in a good State; Suppose him to be, in the Gall of Bitterness, and the Bond of Iniquity; for this man to be now misled by a false Assurance, This undoes him Totally, Finally, and very Terribly▪ The Destroyer of Souls insults over such a man and makes that shout upon his lamentable case Aha, so I would have it! The man is involve in many Labyrinths of wretchedness; he is Preposterous in all h•s Applications; like him in Deut. 29. 20. who Blesses himself, saying I shall have Peace, while all the Curses written in this Book do lie upon him And he is under such entanglements, that neither can he pity himself, nor can any else that wish well unto him, Reli•ve his unhappy circumstances; tis with him, as with that Idolater, in Isai. 44.20. A deceived Heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his Soul, nor say, Is there not a Lie in my Right Hand? It is a thousand to one but the unhappy man will Die Uncured. And The• there will be no Recovering, no Retrieving of a Lost Soul throughout Eternal Ages Tho' he ⟨p. 93⟩should produce never such ample Testimonials for himself, of his Blameless Living, and Spotless Credit, they will not shelter him from the confusion of that Thunder Bolt, Thou art a Worker of iniquity, I know thee not.
But suppose the man to be not in a good State; Suppose him to be, in the Gall of Bitterness, and the Bond of Iniquity; for this man to be now misled by a false Assurance, This undoes him Totally, Finally, and very Terribly▪ The Destroyer of Souls insults over such a man and makes that shout upon his lamentable case Aha, so I would have it! The man is involve in many Labyrinths of wretchedness; he is Preposterous in all h•s Applications; like him in Deut. 29. 20. who Blesses himself, saying I shall have Peace, while all the Curses written in this Book do ly upon him And he is under such entanglements, that neither can he pitty himself, nor can any else that wish well unto him, Relive his unhappy circumstances; tis with him, as with that Idolater, in