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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
DEVOTIONS At the SUPPER of the LORD; With Some Touches upon the con… › Application,
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Consider. 2. Very sad is the WRATH Incurred by them, who do not in a Gracious and a Worthy manner approach to this Holy Table. From this Wrath it is that the unworthy Communicant gets no good by coming to this Ordinance: His coming, is one of those things which the Lord calls, Vain Oblations▪ He comes indeed unto a Divine Supper, but he is not so made partaker of it, as to escape that Curse, in 2 King.7,2. Behold, thou shalt see it with thine Eyes, but thou shalt not Eat thereof; or that curse, in Hos.4.19. They shall Ea•, and shall not be satisfied. No good got by him, did I say! Nay, much Hurt •s felt by him. Tis a Dangerous Thing to come Unsuitably,
Consider. 2. Very sad is the WRATH Incurred by them, who do not in a Gracious and a Worthy manner approach to this Holy Table. From this Wrath it is that the unworthy Communicnat gets no good by coming to this Ordidinance: His coming, is one of those things which the Lord calls, Vain Oblations▪ He comes indeed unto a Divine Supper, but he is not so made partaker of it, as to escape that Curse, in 2 King.7,2. Behold, thou shalt see it with thine Eyes, but thou shalt not Eat thereof; or that curse, in Hos.4.19. They shall Ea•, and shall not be satisfy'd. No good got by him, did I say! Nay, much Hurt •s felt by him. Tis a Dangerous Thing to come Unsuitably,