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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.
God and keep his Commandments?
Tho' all men have our Courtesy, yet have Holy and Gracious and Renewed men, the Benjamin's Mess of our Dilection▪ Do we discern a peculiar Beauty and Sweetness ⟨p. 127⟩in them that are Born again; and will not this or that Little humour, like a S •ar upon them, extinguish their Interest in our Hearts▪ Yea, tho' they may think meanly of us, yet (as Calvin of Luther) can we think highly of them? and I as the Household of Faith a peculiar share in our Bounty, while we Do good unto all? Above all, are we as true Members in the Mystical Body of our Lord Jesus, every day concerned for the Good of the Whole? Truly, We are passed from Death to Life if we love the Brethren.
Tho' all men have our Courtesy, yet have Holy and Gracious and Renewed men, the Benjamines Mess of our Dilection▪ Do we discern a peculiar Beauty and Sweetness ⟨p. 127⟩in them that are Born again; and will not this or that Little humour, like a S •ar upon them, extinguish their Interest in our Hearts▪ Yea, tho' they may think meanly of us, yet (as Calvin of Luther) can we think highly of them? and I as the Hous•old of Faith a peculiar share in our Bounty, while we Do good unto all? Above all, are we as true Members in the Mystical Body of our Lord Jesus, every day concerned for the Good of the Whole? Truly, We are passed from Death to Life if we love the Brethren.