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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
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Secondly, There is an Examination of our Ways, under which we are to bring our selves. It is the Repeated charge, in Hag. 1. 5,7. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, consider your wayest One of the Ancients do's observe upon it, That the Prophet there being but a Young man, and so, more liable to be slighted, his Exhortation is therefore set on wide a great Authority, Thus faith the Lord of Hosts. And if the Lord of Hosts require us to Consider our ways, who dares omit the doing of it? But to Consider them, is to Examine them We should Reflect upon the many Sins that we have been guilty of; and be studious to understand our Errors. I• was bitterly complained of, in Jere.8.6. No man Repented him of his Wickedness, saying, what have I […]? That is a Question that we should often Examine our selves withal, What have I […] doing of? What have I done, that ha's been revoking […] my God, and pernicious to myself▪ ⟨p. 94⟩It was the speech of that good m• in Job 13.23. How many are my Iniquities and […] Sins? make me to know my Transgression […] my sin. We should pursue […] that Knowledge, by a diligent and impartial Examination of our Ways. As in our Psalter we meet with, A Psalm to bring to Remembrance thus, we should use the Law of God, as Book to bring to Remembrance, and we should Remember all our old miscarriages, with […] the Humbling Aggravations of them.
Secondly, There is an Examination of our Wayes, under which we are to bring our selves. It is the Repeated charge, in Hag. 1. 5,7. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, consider your wayes One of the Ancients do's observe upon it, That the Prophet there being but a Young man, and so, more liable to be sleighted, his Exhortation is therefore set on wide a great Authority, Thus faith the Lord of Hosts. And if the Lord of Hosts require us to Consider our wayes, who dares omit the doing of it? But to Consider them, is to Examine them We should Reflect upon the many Sins that we have been guilty of; and be studious to understand our Errors. I was bitterly complained of, in