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A monitor for communicants. An essay to excite and assist religious approaches to the…
A monitor for communicants. An essay to excite and assist religious approaches to the table of the Lord. : Offered by an assembly of the New-English pastors, unto their own flocks, and unto all the churches in these American colonies: with a solemn testimony to that cause of God, and religion in them.
Boston: printed by T. Fleet for Samuel Gerrish, 1715
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
If this Consideration will make little Impression upon you, Oh! Look up to your only Saviour, and hear His Heartbreaking Expostulations. What? Have my People so little Regard unto the Remembrance of their Dying Saviour? Did I, when I was going to lay down My Life, on their behalf, ask them to keep Alive the Memory of what I have done for them, in a Sacramental Commemoration of it; and will they Forget My Last Will and Testament? Do I give them a Precious Opportunity of Communion with Me, wherein One Hour is better than a thousand elsewhere; and are they so entangled in the Lusts of this World, that they ⟨p. 9⟩will not make Ready, to meet me, where I would Commune with them? Oh! Consider of it.
If this Consideration will make little Impression upon you, Oh! Look up to your only Saviour, and hear His Heartbreaking Expostulations. What? Have my People so little Regard unto the Remembrance of their Dying Saviour? Did I, when I was going to lay down My Life, on their behalf, ask them to keep Alive the Memory of what I have done for them, in a Sacramental Commemoration of it; and will they Forget My Last Will and Testament? Do I give them a Precious Opportunity of Communion with Me, wherein One Hour is better than a thousand elsewhere; and are they so intangled in the Lusts of this World, that they ⟨p. 9⟩will not make Ready, to meet me, where I would Commune with them? Oh! Consider of it.
But that which I should rather proceed unto, is; To Set before you, the Preparation, which you are to make, that you may not Come Unworthily unto the Table of the Lord. Having seen your selves Unable to do any thing, & Unworthy that God should enable you, Lift up a cry to Sovereign Grace, that you may be enabled. O Thou from whom is the Preparation of the Heart in Man, Grant, Grant unto me, the Preparation of thy Sanctuary!