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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.
Is the Love of God in all our Soul? Do's our Will cleave and cling to the Blessed God, as the most amiable Object what soever; saying, whom have I in heaven but God, or whom on Earth besides Him? And for our Affections, is that the Language of our Souls, The Lord is my portion, I will hope in him? and that, I will Rejoice in the Lord, and Joy in the God of my Salvation? and that, The Desire of my Soul is to thy Name?
Once more, Is the Love of God, in all our Strength? Do we Lay out our Strength for Him? If He have not had the Strength and Youth of our years, do we Recall that wicked Alienation, with extreme Sorrow and sadness of Soul? Do we give unto God the Strength of our Estate? & not only Give a portion out of it unto pious uses, but make a Dedication of it all unto the Lord, so that it shall be subservient unto His praise, while we are providing for our own, secular Accommodations with it?
Once more, Is the Love of God, in all our Strength? Do we Lay out our Strength for Him? If He have not had the Strength and Youth of our years, do we Recal that wicked Alienation, with extream Sorrow and sadness of Soul? Do we give unto God the Strength of our Estate? & not only Give a portion out of it unto pious uses, but make a Dedication of it all unto the Lord, so that it shall be subservient unto His praise, while we are providing for our own, secular Accommodations with it?
We are to Examine our selves upon this also,