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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.
Fourthly, A Communicant should Examine himself, whether his Love be, The Love which fulfilleth the Law? The Lords Supper is a Love-Feast, and we should have a Lovefire at it. There is a twofold Love, which a Communicant should Examine himself about.
Fourthly, A Communicant should Examine himself, whether his Love be, The Love which fulfilleth the Law? The Lords Supper is a Love-Feast, and we should have a Lovefire at it. There is a two•old Love, which a Communicant should Examine himself about.
First, We must Examine our selves about our Love to GOD. And what is that Love, but, A desire of Union with God, and a Respect to all that hath the Name of God upon it?
When we come to the Lords Table, we see, That God SO Loved the World, as cannot be comprehended by finite Mortal Man. Well, we are now to Examine, whether we So love God, as to Abide in His Love!
We are then to Examine our selves upon this,