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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.
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!
And now;
First; You are to Set before you, the Covenant of Grace, in all the Proposals of it; and Express and Renew the Compliance of your Souls, with all that is Proposed.
The Demand of the Great GOD, is; Perishing Sinner, Shall I be thy God, and thy Portion? Wilt thou take me for thy Father, thy Saviour, thy Leader? Shall it be thy chief Blessedness, to Enjoy me, and to be Employed for me? Art thou Willing and ⟨p. 10⟩Resolved, for ever to depend on my Jesus for every Good Thing and follow His Conduct unto the Blessedness He has purchased and Prepared for His People? Now let the Answer of your very Souls within you, be; Lord, I am Willing; Thou hast made me Willing! This 'tis to come into the Covenant of God. Having Truly done this you may Safely come, & Seal the Covenant; Come, and Ratify your Act and Deed. This is your Business, at the Table of the Lord. Your coming thither, must be on this very Account; it is for this that you are called unto it.