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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.
Have we come to speak from the bottom of our ⟨p. 119⟩Souls, after him, in […] 34 32. That which I see not, Teach thou me, and if I have done Iniquity, I will do no more? Are we […] Universal Controversy with all sin? So, that in our […] we Loath every sin, and can say, I •ate every false way? and in our Course we Leave every Gross sin, and are among those, who, Do no Iniquity! Have we parted with a Right Eye, and a Right Hand, which we have beheld offensive unto God? And are we come to an Everlasting Separation from all Sin? So that we have given a •ill of Divorce unto our former ill-practices, never to be Repealed, never to be Reversed? Is every Evil Spirit cast out of us, with that Charge and Charm sufficiently laid upon it, Return no more into them?
Have we come to speak from the bottome of our ⟨p. 119⟩Souls, after him, in 〈…〉 34 32. That which I see not, Teach thou me, and if I have done Iniquity, I will do no more? Are we 〈…〉 Universal Controversy with all sin? So, that in our 〈…〉 we Loath every sin, and can say, I •ate every false way? and in our Course we Leave every Gross sin, and are among those, who, Do no Iniquity! Have we parted with a Right Eye, and a Right Hand, which we have beheld offensive unto God? And are we come to an Everlasting Separation from all Sin? So that we have given a •ill of Divorce unto our former ill-practices, never to be Repealed, never to be Reversed? Is every Evil Spirit cast out of us, with that Charge and Charm sufficiently laid upon it, Return no more into them?
Finally, We are to Examine our selves,