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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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We should now indeed fetch ve•ue from the Death of Christ, for the Death of Sin; and ⟨p. 157⟩we should seriously and sincerely Resolve now to put our sin unto a Death which may bear a notable Analogy to the Death of our Lord. As now, The Jews never left urging of their Governor against the Lord Jesus, until they got Him Crucified. Even so should we now fall to Sighing and shouting before our God, Lord my sin is a Traitor to thy Throne! and beg till He give order, The Rebel shall Die, […] Complain against this Haman, when you are at this Banquet with the Eternal King.
We should now indeed fetch ve•ue from the Death of Christ, for the Death of Sin; and ⟨p. 157⟩we should seriously and sincerely Resolve now to put our sin unto a Death which may bear a notable Analogy to the Death of our Lord. As now, The Jews never left urging of their Governour against the Lord Jesus, until they got Him Crucify'd. Even so should we now fall to Sighing and shouting before our God, Lord my sin is a Traitor to thy Throne! and beg till He give order, The Rebel shall Dy, 〈…〉 Complain against this Haman, when you are at this Banquet with the Eternal King.
Moreover, The Jews drew up many Heavy Indictments against the Lord Jesus. When that was done, they throw all Sorts of Indignities upon Him. They than withdrew all kinds of Refreshments from Him. And lastly, They Tortured Him, till by their Torments they hunted that H •nd of the Morning, His Soul out of His Body. Resolve now upon such a Treatment of every Sin, tho' the sin may be as dear as a Right-Eye, or a Right-Hand unto you. Devout Nazi••zen said; when a Lust gave too busy molestations to him, he could quickly quell it by Reading the Book of the Lamentations. How much more Mortifying a spectacle should it be unto us, when here we see, The Man who is Gods Fellow, hanging on a Tree?