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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.
Secondly, A Communicant should Examine himself, Whether his Repentance be, The Repentance which is not to be Repented of. And what is true Repentance, but, A Grace of God whereby a Sinner with Grief and Shame for Sin, Turns from it, unto the Eternal God?
While we are Impenitent, there is, Nothing pure unto us. As the Lord of old said, in […] 1. 15. Put away the Evil of your Doings▪ ⟨p. 117⟩Cease to do evil, Learn to do well; that's Repentance; and it follows, Come now, and let us Reason together. Thus do's our God say unto us, First Repent of Evil Doings, and come NOW to my Holy Table. We must Examine whether we have got the Sour Herbs of Repentance for Sin in our Souls, before we come to the Passover of our Lord. It was the purpose of the Psalmist, in Psal.26.6. I will wash my Hands in Innocency, so will I compass thi•e Altar, O Lord. The like should our study be, I will wash my Soul in Repentance, and so will I come so the Table of the Lord
While we are Impenitent, there is, Nothing pure unto us. As the Lord of old said, in 〈…〉 1. 15. Put away the Evil of your Doings▪ ⟨p. 117⟩Cease to do evil, Learn to do well; that's Repentance; and it follows, Come now, and let us Reason together. Thus do's our God say unto us, First Repent of Evil Doings, and come NOW to my Holy Table. We must Examine whether we have got the Sour Herbs of Repentance for Sin in our Souls, before we come to the Passover of our Lord. It was the purpose of the Psalmist, in Psal.26.6. I will wash my Hands in Innocency, so will I compass thi•e Altar, O Lord. The like should our study be, I will wash my Soul in Repentance, and so will I come so the Table of the Lord