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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… › Council 3: Counsil 3.
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Counsel 3.
Counsil 3.
Let the Affectionate as well as the Historical Remembrance of the Lord Jesus Christ, be That which may Exercise your Graces at his Table. our Dying Lord had this Respect put upon Him in John 12 3. Mary took a pound of Ointment of Spikenard, very costly, and anointed the Feet of Jesus; and the House was filled with the Odour of the Ointment. Even so, Tis our Dying Jesus that our Spikenard is here to be employed upon; and it is by a Remembrance of Him, that the ⟨p. 152⟩Spikenard is to become truly Odoriferous. This is the short and the sum of our business here, Do this in Remembrance of the Lord.
Let the Affectionate as well as the Historical Remembrance of the Lord Jesus Christ, be That which may Exercise your Graces at his Table. our Dying Lord had this Respect put upon Him in John 12 3. Mary took a pound of Ointment of Spiknard, very costly, and anointed the Feet of Jesus; and the House was filled with the Odour of the Ointment. Even so, Tis our Dying Jesus that our Spiknard is here to be employed upon; and it is by a Remembrance of Him, that the ⟨p. 152⟩Spiknard is to become truly Odoriferous. This is the short and the sum of our buisiness here, Do this in Remembrance of the Lord.