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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 we Reverence the Image of God, even in the meanest person whatsoever! Do we account the Saints, as, The Excellent in all the Earth? While the world says of them, They are not worthy to Live, do we say of them, The World is not worthy of them! Are the Truths of God so dear unto us, that we count them worth being Earnestly contended for? Being of his Resolution, Let the Sky fall, and Heaven tumble on our Head, rather than one crumb of Truth should be Lost? And as for that blessed Repository of them, the Holy Bible, can we say, Oh how I love thy •aw? do we say, 'Tis more desirable than much fine gold, and sweeter than the Honey Comb? are we conversing with it, until ⟨p. 125⟩our Hearts are become, as 'tis expressed about one of the Ancients, The Libraries of the Lord Jesus Christ? and can we, like that Renowned Prince, prefer the Scripture above a Sceptre?
Do we Reverence the Image of God, even in the meanest person whatsoever! Do we account the Saints, as, The Excellent in all the Earth? While the world says of them, They are not worthy to Live, do we say of them, The World is not worthy of them! Are the Truths of God so dear unto us, that we count them worth being Earnestly contended for? Being of his Resolution, Let the Skie fall, and Heaven tumble on our Head, rather than one crumb of Truth should be Lost? And as for that blessed Repository of them, the Holy Bible, can we say, Oh how I love thy •aw? do we say, 'Tis more desirable than much fine gold, and sweeter than the Hony Comb? are we conversing with it, until ⟨p. 125⟩our Hearts are become, as 'tis expressed about one of the Ancients, The Libraries of the Lord Jesus Christ? and can we, like that Renowned Prince, preferr the Scripture above a Scepter?
Are the Ordinances of God so precious with us, that we can say, Lord, I have loved the Habitation of thy House? Would we count a banishment from the Sanctuary one of the worst Calamities in the World! Can we cheerfully encounter any Difficulties that we may, Dwell in the House of the Lord Would we look upon brown Bread and the Gospel, as very good Fare and can we say, A Day in thy Courts is better than a thousand