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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.
Enquire; Do I Look upon Sin, as the Worst of Evils? Has the contempt ⟨p. 15⟩which my Sin has offered unto […] Great GOD, been the inexpressible Trouble of my Soul? Do I abhor every thing, that I take to be a Sin? Am I afraid of Indulging so much as a Sinful Thought in my Mind? Have I chosen Affliction rather than Sin; when I must undergo that, for the Avoiding of Sin? And can I rejoice in that Affliction, which I find Mortifies my Sin, and prevents and preserves me from falling into Sin?
Enquire; Do I Look upon Sin, as the Worst of Evils? Has the contempt ⟨p. 15⟩which my Sin has offered unto 〈…〉 Great GOD, been the inexpressible Trouble of my Soul? Do I abhor every thing, that I take to be a Sin? Am I afraid of Indulging so much as a Sinful Thought in my Mind? Have I chosen Affliction rather than Sin; when I must undergo that, for the Avoiding of Sin? And can I rejoyce in that Affliction, which I find Mortifies my Sin, and prevents and preserves me from falling into Sin?
Enquire; Does the Infinite GOD, appear in every Thing Desirable to me; in every thing, worthy to be Loved, worthy to be Praised? Have I Placed my chief Happiness, in an Acquaintance, and Fellowship with such a God; and in having His Favour; and in being used in Service for Him; and in being brought where He shall be All in All unto me? Is my Delight in those things that bring me near unto Him? And is it my Study to advance His Kingdom in the World?
Enquire; Do I desire the Prosperity of my Neighbours? Am I glad when ⟨p. 16⟩