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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.
DEVOTIONS At the SUPPER of the LORD; With Some Touches upon the constitution of the Gospel Churches which that Glorious Appointment of our Lord Jesus is to be celebrated in.
CANT. 1. 12. While the King Sitteth at His Table, my Spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
CANT. 1. 12. While the King Sitteth at His Table, my Spiknard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
OF all the Mysteries in the World; there is none more, Comfortable and Admirable than the Blessed Union and Communion between the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Church of Militant Believers on Him. Of all the Resemblances that ⟨p. 135⟩can be used for the Illustration hereof, there is none more Significant than what the Marriage of two Passionate Lovers will afford. That mystery is most eloquently set forth by this Resemblance, in the Song of Solomon▪
OF all the Mysteries in the World; there is none more, Comfortable and Admirable than the Blessed Union and Communion between the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Church of Militant Believers on Him. Of all the Resemblances that ⟨p. 135⟩