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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
PREPARATIONS for the SUPPER of the LORD With The MARKS of a Good St… › Case 2: The second Case.
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.
Some Notice must be taken of such Dejected Souls; and may He that is Anointed to give unto them that mourn in Zion, the Garment of praise for the Spirit of Heaviness, bless these words unto them!
First, Cherish not ungrounded Fears; for the more you do, the more you may. One says well concerning these Fears, They are like Thistles, a Bad We•d, but growing in Good Ground. Indeed they commonly grow most in that ground, where there is least ground for their Growth; and it is because Good Hearts do too much Nourish and Indulge them. A Complaining, Repining, Disconsolate, sort of Temper is too much humoured by many pious persons, as if it were pleasing unto God; whereas, God loves a Cheerful giver. Are you under sad Fears about yourselves? Let me say to you, as the Angel said unto the Melancholy Prophet, in I King.19.9. What doest thou here? You must get up, and seek till you find some Remedy against your Fears. ⟨p. 130⟩Don't sweel away week after week in this Fearful Disposition, but be Vigorous in your Endeavours to become Victorious over it.
First, Cherish not ungrounded Fears; for the more you do, the more you may. One says well concerning these Fears, They are like Thistles, a Bad We•d, but growing in Good Ground. Indeed they commonly grow most in that ground, where there is least ground for their Growth; and it is because Good Hearts do too much Nourish and Indulge them. A Complaining, Repining, Disconsolate, sort of Temper is too much humoured by many pious persons, as if it were pleasing unto God; whereas, God loves a Chearful giver. Are you under sad Fears about yourselves? Let me say to you, as the Angel said unto the Melancholy Prophet, in I King.19.9. What doest thou here? You must get up, and seek till you find some Remedy against your Fears. ⟨p. 130⟩