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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.
The Children of men are but in One of those two States. Either, they are the Sheep, that must at the Right Hand of the Lord Jesus, Except a, Come ye Blessed, Inherit the Kingdom! or else they are the Goats, that must at the Left Hand of the Lord Jesus, Expect a, Depart ye cursed, into Everlasting Fire!
The Children of men are but in One of those two States. Either, they are the Sheep, that must at the Right Hand of the Lord Jesus, Except a, Come ye Blessed, Inherit the Kingdome! or else they are the Goats, that must at the Left Hand of the Lord Jesus, Expect a, Depart ye cursed, into Everlasting Fire!
If upon Examination, you find yourselves in a Good, Justified, Sanctified, State of Soul; Oh then, Comfort yourselves with these words; Comfort yourselves against all the Griefs, & all the Fears, that may oppress you. Imagine, That you now hear that Voice from the Lofty Battlements of Heaven reaching to your Ears, Child, Be of Good cheer, Thy sin• are forgiven thee! And, methinks, one such Intimation as that, may swallow up all the Troubles which this Life is made uneasy with. Hereupon likewise offer up your most Raised Praises unto the Great God, who ha's thus called you out of Darkness into His Marvellous Light. Go sing the Beginning of the Hundred and third Psalm; and let the High Praises of God be ever sounding in your souls; and be often thinking therewithal. O ⟨p. 109⟩what shall I render to the Lord, for all His Benefits?
If upon Examination, you find yourselves in a Good, Justify'd, Sanctify'd, State of Soul; Oh then, Comfort yourselves with these words; Comfort yourselves against all the Griefs, & all the Fears, that may oppress you. Imagine, That you now hear that Voice from the Lofty Battlements of Heaven reaching to your Ears, Child, Be of Good cheer, Thy sin• are forgiven thee! And, methinks, one such Intimation as that, may swallow up all the Troubles which this Life is made uneasy with. Hereupon likewise offer up your most Raised Praises unto the Great God, who ha's thus call'd you out of Darkness into His Marvellous Light. Go sing the Beginning of the Hundred and third Psalm; and let the High Praises of God be ever sounding in your souls; and be often thinking therewithal. O