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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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Fourthly, We should Remember the Lord Jesus Christ at His Table, with a warm Lov•• ⟨p. 160⟩to what we should by His Death be Endeared unto. Particularly, We are now to Remember our Dying Jesus with our Hearts going forth to God, who has made Him a Propitiation for us. We should find our selves now touched with a sensible Gratitude unto God for bestowing upon us a Christ, which is infinitely better than a World. It is an Eucharist that we are here concerned in; Thankfulness is wonderfully proper for us. Our Lord with His Disciples at the Sacrament, in Mat. 26. 30. Sung an Hymn. And so should we, having the High praises of God in our mouths. The Jews at their Passover, sang the Hundred and Thirteenth with the five following Psalms, which they called, The Great Hallelujah, and indeed it is a great Hallelujah, which we ought to have at our Sacrament. A, bless the Lord, O my Soul; A, What shall I render to the Lord? is a fit Language for us here. But our Thankfulness to God for, Not sparing His Son, but Giving to us all things with Him, is to express it sel• especially in our closing with Him, and cleaving to Him by New Acts of Stipulation. We should now renew our Covenants with God, and Repeat our Vows to be For Him and not for another.
Fourthly, We should Remember the Lord Jesus Christ at His Table, with a warm Lov•• ⟨p. 160⟩to what we should by His Death be Endear'd unto. Particularly, We are now to Remember our Dying Jesus with our Hearts going forth to God, who has made Him a Propitiation for us. We should find our selves now touched with a sensible Gratitude unto God for bestowing upon us a Christ, which is infinitely better than a World. It is an Eucharist that we are here concerned in; Thankfulness is wonderfully proper for us. Our Lord with His Disciples at the Sacrament, in Mat. 26. 30. Sung an Hymn. And so should we, having the High praises of God in our mouths. The Jews at their Passover, sang the Hundred and T••rteenth with the five following Psalms, which they called, The Great Hallelujah, and indeed it is a great Hallelujah, which we ought to have at our Sacrament. A, bless the Lord, O my Soul; A, What shall I render to the Lord? is a fit Language for us here. But our Thankfulness to God for, Not sparing His Son, but Giving to us all things with Him, is to express it sel especially in our closing with Him, and cleaving to Him by New Acts of Stipulation. We should now renew our Covenants with God, and Repeat our Vows to be For Him and not for another.