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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
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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.
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 Employ'd 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.
Secondly. You must behold a Sacrificed Saviour; the Lamb of God! and make a fresh Application to the Sacrifice of your Saviour. Affect your selves with the view of your Sins, and of the Plagues to which you are Exposed by your Sins; and then, the Provision which God has made, in the Sacrifice of your Saviour, that your Sins may be all Forgiven you. Own, you Need such a Sacrifice, and Renounce all Hopes, but in That alone; and Admire the Favour of God that has provided such a Sacrifice for you, and allowed you to Plead