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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.
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Thirdly, Tis possible that your Fears themselves, may be Just Grounds for your coming to the Table of the Lord. For,
Assurance is not Absolutely Necessary in order to a worthy Coming unto the Holy Supper. We are to Examine our selves, and if upon the Examination we do not find full cause to pronounce ourselves Unregenerate, ⟨p. 132⟩we are to come, tho' we have many Fears, whether we be indeed Regenerate. or no. We are herein to Run some Hazard and Venture, out of Obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ. We read in Math.14 28. That when our Lord said unto Peter, Come, he boldly stepped into the Deep to come unto Him; and when his Fears of Sinking distressed him, our Lord caught him by the hand. Even so, you may suspect, that for you to come unto the Lords Table, would be as Dangerous a Thing as to cast yourselves into a Stormy Sea; yea, but since the Lord says, Come, you ought to come as well as you can, and humbly say, Lord, It is •t thy Bidding that I come, O let me not Sink in the Floods of Death, by my coming to thee. What tho you have many Fears upon you? We read of a poor Woman, that came, Fearing and Trembling, and fell down before the Lord Jesus; who yet found Healing by Touching the Fringe of His Garment.
Assurance is not Absolutely Necessary in order to a worthy Coming unto the Holy Supper. We are to Examine our selves, and if upon the Examination we do not find full cause to pronounce ourselves Unregenerate, ⟨p. 132⟩we are to come, tho' we have many Fears, whether we be indeed Regenerate. or no. We are herein to Run some Hazard and Venture, out of Obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ. We read in Math.14 28. That when our Lord said unto Peter, Come, he boldly step't into the Deep to come unto Him; and when his Fears of Sinking distressed him, our Lord caught him by the hand. Even so, you may suspect, that for you to come unto the Lords Table, would be as Dangerous a Thing as to cast yourselves into a Stormy Sea; yea, but since the Lord says, Come, you ought to come as well as you can, and humbly say, Lord, It is t thy Bidding that I come, O let me not Sink in the Floods of Death, by my coming to thee. What tho you have many Fears upon you? We read of a poor Woman, that came, Fearing and Trembling, and fell down before the Lord Jesus; who yet found Healing by Touching the Fringe of His Garment.