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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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It was an expression in 1 Cor 11.30. For this cause many are We•k and S•ck among you, and many sleep There seems to be a mortal Distemper sent among the Corinthians, because the Supper of the Lord was profaned with them. Because they did not use the Lords Body in a Becoming manner therefore Their Bodies were plagued with Troublesome Diseases, to chastise that Iniquity. If you love your Lives, or if you would not perish like Julian the uncle, or Felix the Treasurer of the Apostate. I pray look to your Behaviours at the Table which represents the Death of our Lord. The Famous and Faithful Paraeus told his Countrymen, When I consider your Sacrament-Profanations, I do not wonder at the Desolating Judgments of God, that come upon you. And give me leave to say, that the English Nation has at this day but unhappy Symptoms on it, on the score of the Prostitutions which have been made of this Tremendous Ordinance; 'tis well if the Righteous and Jealous God will not shortly make Rivers of Blood to run in a Kingdom, where the Blood of His dear Son, has been used as an unholy Thing.
It was an expression in 1 Cor 11.30. For this cause many are We•k and S•ck among you, and many sleep There seems to be a mortal Distemper sent among the Corinthians, because the Supper of the Lord was profaned with them. Because they did not use the Lords Body in a Becoming manner therefore Their Bodies were plagued with Troublesome Diseases, to chastise that Iniquity. If you love your Lives, or if you would not perish like Julian the uncle, or Felix the Treasurer of the Apostate. I pray look to your Behaviours at the Table which represents the Death of our Lord. The Famous and Faithful Paraeus told his Countreymen, When I consider your Sacrament-Profanations, I do not wonder at the Desolating Judgments of God, that come upon you. And give me leave to say, that the English Nation has at this day but unhappy Symptoms on it, on the score of the Prostitutions which have been made of this Tremendous Ordinance; 'tis well if the Righteous and Jealous God will not shortly make Rivers of Blood to run in a Kingdome, where the Blood of His dear Son, has been us'd as an unholy Thing.