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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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Again, We are now to Remember our Dying Jesus with a Trust in Him for all Salvation. We are told in John 2. 11. That when Jesus turned Water into Wine, His Disciples Believed on Him. Thus are we to Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, when we see him after a sort here Turning of Wine into Blood. As our Lord said unto the man, in Mark 9. 23. If thou canst now Believe, all things are possible; and he Replied, Lord, I Believe. So do's He now say to us, If thou wilt now put thy Trust in me, and give thy Assent and Consent unto it, that this Death of mine, should procure all good Things for thee, I have all the sure mercies of my Covenant to bestow upon thee. O let your Answer be, Lord, I believe! Lord, This is not only the Wish, but also the Trust of my very Soul. We should with a vigorous and Renewed Hope, afresh commit our Souls into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ, as that Redeemer, Who is able to save unto the uttermost, and In whom all Fullness Dwells; and give not over Appropriating of Him to our selves, till we be Raised into some Raptures of Assura••• which may enable us to say, My Beloved is mine, and I am His, and He has placed me now in the midst of the Lilies which He Feeds among.
Again, We are now to Remember our Dying Jesus with a Trust in Him for all Salvation. We are told in John 2. 11. That when Jesus turned Water into Wine, His Disciples Believed on Him. Thus are we to Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, when we see him after a sort here Turning of Wine into Blood. As our Lord said unto the man, in Mark 9. 23. If thou canst now Believe, all things are possible; and he Reply'd, Lord, I Believe. So do's He now say to us, If thou wilt now put thy Trust in me, and give thy Assent and Consent unto it, that this Death of mine, should procure all good Things for thee, I have all the sure mercies of my Covenant to bestow upon thee. O let your Answer be, Lord, I believe! Lord, This is not only the Wish, but also the Trust of my very Soul. We should with a vigorous and Renewed Hope, afresh commit our Souls into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ, as that Redeemer, Who is able to save unto the uttermost, and In whom all Fulness Dwells; and give not over Appropriating of Him to our selves, till we be Raised into some Raptures of Assura which may enable us to say, My Beloved is mine, and I am His, and He has placed me now in the midst of the Lillies which He Feeds among.