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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.
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⟩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 elequently set forth by this Resemblance, in the Song of Solomon▪
The Jews compare the Three Books of Solomon, to the Three Parts of the Temple built by him; the Proverbs they liken to the Porch, the Ecclesiastes they liken to the Holy Place; and the Canticles they liken to the Holy of Holies, within the Veil, where all things were full of Mystery, Reverence and Religion. Tis a Pastoral and a Nuptial Song which we an• here entertained with; but we may make the Enquiry sometimes made upon another occasion. I Pray thee, of whom Speaks the Prophet this? of himself, or of some other? Truly, it cannot be said, of Solomon, That he was a proper Shepherd, or that he was any where shut out of Doors, till his Head was •et with the Dew. Nor can it be said about the Queen of Solomon, That she was a Rural Busy Shepherdess, or, that having lost her Brid• groom, she was beaten by Watchmen that found her seeking of him.