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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.
Are our Souls Illuminated by a Saving Operation of the Eternal Spirit on them? Is the Light of Divine Truth within us, become Irresistible, and Ungainsayable? Is the Truth of God so strongly Imprinted upon us, that we can give the Martyrs answer to the Sophistry of all opposers, Tho' I can't Learnedly Dispute for the Truth, yet I can Readily Die for it?
Are our Souls Illuminated by a Saving Operation of the Eternal Spirit on them? Is the Light of Divine Truth within us, become Irresistible, and Ungainsayable? Is the Truth of God so strongly Imprinted upon us, that we can give the Martyrs answer to the Sophistry of all opposers, Tho' I can't Learnedly Dispute for the Truth, yet I can Readily Dy for it?
Have we a sense of Truth, and do we Taste and See, that, The Lord is Good? Is Experience joined with our Speculation; and instead of being sw•ln like Bellowed or Bladders, by that which when Unsanctified, puffeth up, can we say, Now mine Eye sees, I abhor my self? Are we come to judge of things with a Spiritual Eye; and admire, and adore the things which the world counts Foolishness? Is our Wisdom so pure, that it puts us upon Mortifying all Dispositions, that are contrary to God, within us? Is our Affection raised, by what we understand; and do's our Love abound yet more and more in all Knowledge and Sense? And is our Obedience thereby promoted, so that Knowing of these things, we are so Happy […] to do them?
Have we a sense of Truth, and do we Tast and See, that, The Lord is Good? Is Experience joyned with our Speculation; and instead of being sw•ln like Bellowed or Bladders, by that which when Unsanctify'd, puffeth up, can we say, Now mine Eye sees, I abhor my self? Are we come to judge of things with a Spiritual Eye; and admire, and adore the things which the world counts Foolishness? Is our Wisdom so pure, that it puts us upon Mortifying all Dispositions, that are contrary to God, within us? Is our Affection raised, by what we understand; and do's our Love abound yet more and more in all Knowledge and Sense? And is our Obedience thereby promod, so that Knowing of these things, we are so Happy to do them?