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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.
Do I make such a Confession of Sin, as may argue a Spirit without Guile?
Have we followed that Example in Psal. 32. 5. I acknowledge my Sin, and mine Iniquity, I have not hid?
Have we vomited up our sins, by ingenuous Declarations of our Dissatisfactions at them? and have we found it as uneasy to retain them, as a Cup of Tre•abling, or, poison in our Bowels? Have we very penitently confessed our sins unto God; like the Prodigal saying, I have sinned, and am unworthy? And have we done it very particularly too; like the Apostle▪ saying, I was a Blasphemer, a Persecutor, and Injurious? Have we also confessed our sins unto Men, when we have injured them by sin, like David saying, Lord, I have sinned and wronged these Sheep? Or, when we have Assisted them in sin […] Josephs Brethren saying, We have been verily Guilty together?
Have we vomited up our sins, by ingenuous Declarations of our Dissatisfactions at them? and have we found it as uneasy to retain them, as a Cup of Tre•abling, or, poyson in our Bowels? Have we very penitently confessed our sins unto God; like the Prodigal saying, I have sinned, and am unworthy? And have we done it very particularly too; like the Apostle▪ saying, Iwas a Blasphemer, a Persecutor, and Injurious? Have we also confessed our sins unto Men, when we have injured them by sin, like David saying, Lord, I have sinned and wronged these Sheep? Or, when we have Assisted them in sin 〈…〉 Josephs Brethren saying, We have been verily Guilty together?