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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.
Can we truly say with him, in Acts 24. 14. I believe all Things written in the Law and the Prophets. When we look upon all the Revelations which the Lord in the Scripture has made unto us, do we say, These are True and Righteous altogether? Yea, do we find our Hearts Closing therewithal; and can we accordingly profess as in Isa 39. 8. Good is the Word of the Lord? Of the Doctrines in the Bible, have we that Resentment, These are pure words, like Silver purified seven times? Of the Commandments, do we say, These Laws are Holy and Just and Good? Of the Promises do we say, These are great and precious Promises? Of the Threatenings, do we say, These Words are True from the Beginning, and these Righteous Judgments endure for ever? In fine, Have all the Oracles of God, that Reputation with us, in 1 Tim. 1. 15. Faithful sayings, and worthy of all Acceptation?
Can we truly say with him, in Acts 24. 14. I believe all Things written in the Law and the Prophets. When we look upon all the Revelations which the Lord in the Scripture has made unto us, do we say, These are True and Righteous altogether? Yea, do we find our Hearts Closing therewithal; and can we accordingly profess as in Isa 39. 8. Good is the Word of the Lord? Of the Doctrines in the Bible, have we that Resentment, These are pure words, like Silver purify'd seven times? Of the Commandments, do we say, These Laws are Holy and Just and Good? Of the Promises do we say, These are great and precious Promises? Of the Threatnings, do we say, These Words are True from the Beginning, and these Righteous Judgments endure for ever? In fine, Have all the Oracles of God, that Reputation with us, in 1 Tim. 1. 15. Faithful sayings, and worthy of all Acceptation?
We are furthermore to Examine our selves,