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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.
That there is a First Being, who being one […] in three Persons, Infinite, & Eternal in all perfections, has from Everlasting Decreed all that is, and is the Maker and Ruler of all other Beings. That this God created Man, with an immortal Spirit, in an Earthly Body, and Enduing him with a Divine Image told him, that if he Did well, he and his should Live: but otherwise Die every Death. That this Man, at the solicitations of Devils, disobeyed his Lord, and all his Children falling in him and with him, are Born horribly depraved and defiled, and continually adding New Rebellions against the most High, are thereby exposed unto every Curse of a Righteous and a terrible God. We are to Know and Believe, that the Second Person in the Adorable trinity, took upon Him the ⟨p. 115⟩Nature of man, and therein fulfilled the Law of God, and underwent the Wrath of God, and now ever Lives to make Intercession, having all Fullness in Him, that He may convey Life unto as many as Embrace Him for their Lord and Saviour. That all among the Lost Children of Adam, who are chosen unto such Happiness, are in the Time appointed effectually Drawn and Called unto the Lord Jesus, by His Holy Spirit; & brought into His Church, for the Edification of which He hath Instituted several Ordinances; and to Receive and Enjoy from Him the privileges belonging to the Children of God, partly in this world, and more fully in the world so come for ever; while all others are everlastingly separated from the Favour and Fellowship of the Lord Jehovah. That this God man, is now in the Third Heaven, improving of His Angels for the Service of His people, and will ere Long Return from thence into this Lower World; and having Summoned and Examin••• every one of mankind the Dead thereof all being Raised for that End, pass an Irreversible Doom upon each one, either to Everlasting punishment, or to Life Eternal.
That there is a First Being, who being one 〈…〉 in three Persons, Infinite, & Eternal in all perfections, has from Everlasting Decreed all that is, and is the Maker and Ruler of all other Beings. That this God created Man, with an immortal Spirit, in an Earthly Body, and Enduing him with a Divine Image told him, that if he Did well, he and his should Live: but otherwise Dy every Death. That this Man, at the solicitations of Devils, disobey'd his Lord, and all his Children falling in him and with him, are Born horribly depraved and defiled, and continually adding New Rebellions against the most High, are thereby exposed unto every Curse of a Righteous and a terrible God. We are to Know and Believe, that the Second Person in the Adorable rinity, took upon Him the