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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To the CHURCH of the Lord Jesus in the North Part of Boston. Particularly, To the Honourable Sr. William Phips Kt. To the Worshipful John Richards Esq. And to my Honoured and Worthy Friends,
Mr. Adam Winthrop. Mr. John Foster. Dr. John Clark.
By whose Pious Desire and Expense, this Little Book is put into the Hands of all the Rest, who belong to that Society.
By whose Pious Desire and Expence, this Little Book is put into the Hands of all the Rest, who belong to that Society.
Twas a Consideration of the Influence, which a Worthy preparing for, and partaking of, the Lords Supper has upon our whole Religion, and the Multitude of the Souls among us concerned in that Holy Ordinance, with the Paucity of the Books among us, which might be Companions and Monitors to them for their Assistance in it, that awakened me to write what is now in your Hands to Read; and it may not be accounted any wrong unto New-England, if any of its true Friend• endeavour to turn it from a