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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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Particularly, We are now to Remember our Dying Jesus, with a Sorrow for all our sins. Here we should fulfil that word, in Zech. 12. 12. They shall look on Him, whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn. O We should now mourn to think of the Grief, which our sins have put the Lord Jesus Christ unto; and we should look upon our selves, as the Judas, the Pilate, and all the Wicked Miscreants that butchered ou• Lord. When we see our Blessed Jesus fearfully mangled on his Table we may take it for granted, Surely some evil Beast has devoured Him! But we must presently remind that we our selves were the Devourers, and we may a little alter the Words used by David of old, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but this Lamb, what has he done? Hereupon all the Strokes and Stabs given to our Lord, should enter into our Hearts; and as when our Dying Lord said unto Mary, Behold thy Son! it is noted, A Sword passed through her Soul: So when tis here said unto us, Behold thy Saviour! Every sin of ours that brought the Curse upon him, should be as a Sword unto our very Souls within us. ⟨p. 156⟩If a Murderer touch the Body Slain by him▪ it […] afresh, we do here to•• the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, which we have Murdered; O that our own hearts may bleed at it; and say, Lord, what a Wretch am I?
Particularly, We are now to Remember our Dying Jesus, with a Sorrow for all our sins. Here we should fulfil that word, in Zech. 12. 12. They shall look on Him, whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn. O We should now mourn to think of the Grief, which our sins have put the Lord Jesus Christ unto; and we should look upon our selves, as the Judas, the Pilate, and all the Wicked Miscreants that butchered ou• Lord. When we see our Blessed Jesus fearfully mangled on his Table we may take it for granted, Surely some evil Beast has devoured Him! But we must presently remind that we our selves were the Devourers, and we may a little alter the Words used by David of old, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but this Lamb, what has he done? Hereupon all the Strokes and Stabs given to our Lord, should enter into our Hearts; and as when our Dying Lord said unto Mary, Behold thy Son! it is noted, A Sword passed through her Soul: So when tis here said unto us, Behold thy Saviour! Every sin of ours that brought the Curse upon him, should be as a Sword unto our very Souls within us.