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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.
They are not few or small Duties which you ⟨p. 3⟩that are Baptized must count your selves bound unto. Tis no less than A putting on Christ, unto which you are engaged by your Baptismal Vow. God forbid that you should look upon your Baptism as an useless Formality or a trifling Ceremony The Waters of Baptism, will prove more bitter and baneful than the waters of jealousy to the guilty Souls of them that forget what engagements are by their Baptism laid upon them.
They are not few or small Duties which you ⟨p. 3⟩that are Baptized must count your selves bound unto. Tis no less than A putting on Christ, unto which you are engaged by your Baptismal Vow. God forbid that you should look upon your Baptism as an useless Formality or a trifling Ceremony The Waters of Baptism, will prove more bitter and baneful than the waters of jealousie to the guilty Souls of them that forget what engagements are by their Baptism laid upon them.
You are Baptized into the Name of the glorious Trinity, to intimate the Bonds which now lie upon you to acknowledge God the Father, as your Father, God the Son as your Saviour, and God the Spirit as your Strengthener. You have received His Mark on your Foreheads, […] show that you ought to make a public and open Profession of His Name; and Renounce all the Idols of this evil World. It is a Baptism unto Repentance which you have been the Sub•••• of; and you are thereby bound unto such a […] for, and Hatred of, all Sin, as is the Repentance not to be repented of.
You are Baptized into the Name of the glorious Trinity, to intimate the Bonds which now ly upon you to acknowledg God the Father, as your Father, God the Son as your Saviour, and God the Spirit as your Strengthener. You have received His Mark on your Foreheads, 〈…〉 shew that you ought to make a public and open Profession of His Name; and Renounce all the Idols of this evil World. It is a Baptism unto Repentance which you have been the Sub of; and you are thereby bound unto such a for, and Hatred of, all Sin, as is the Repentance not to be repented of.