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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.
Assertion 3.
We are to Examine our Wants before ou• coming to the Table of the Lord, because we are there to expect the supply of our spiritual Necessities.
We should bring Hungry and Thirsty Souls with us, to this Feast of our God; but it must be a pungent and a pinching conviction of our Indigencies, that must raise our Appetites. We should study well to know the Ails of our Souls, because we are here to have the Medicines of them dispensed unto us; and we should seek distinctly to know our own Emptiness, because we are here to receive of His Fullness, in whom all Fullness dwells. When we come to the Lords Table, He will ask us, as He did them in Mat. 20.32. What will ye that I shall do unto you? And thence we should ⟨p. 101⟩forehand ask our selves, What want we that our saviour may do for us? what Wisdom, what Righteousness, what Sanctification, or what Redemption is there, that we have occasion for?
We should bring Hungry and Thirsty Souls with us, to this Feast of our God; but it must be a pungent and a pinching conviction of our Indigencies, that must raise our Appetites. We should study well to know the Ails of our Souls, because we are here to have the Medicines of them dispensed unto us; and we should seek distinctly to know our own Emptiness, because we are here to receive of His Fullness, in whom all Fullness dwells. When we come to the Lords Table, He will ask us, as He did them in