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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.
A Soul thus Engaged, is at a Feast of Fat things full of Marrow, of Wines on the Lees well refined.
Secondly. You may find Intervening Spaces while you are about this Work of the Lord, for to prosecute many Special Designs of Godliness, which would here have their most Effectual Prosecution. There are Intervening Pauses, whereof tis pity a moment should be lost. Now, it were all Wisdom and Prudence in you, before your coming hither, to Shape some Holy Designs, which you will come upon. Besides what the Sermons Preached on these Occasions may Lead you to think upon; you may aforehand ponder, What remarkable Deficiency in my Christianity should I now seek to have repaired? Or, What is the Distemper in my Soul, that I will now go to the Lord ⟨p. 22⟩my Healer, for the Healing of? Or, What is the Temptation, with which I am now most in Danger to find the Tempter too hard for me? At the Table of the Lord, Look upon your Saviour, as first Purchasing that Favour of God, which you are now pursuing of. Declare that you Receive what is before you, as a Token, that you Rely upon Him for that Favour. Then Look upon your Saviour as on the Throne at the Right Hand of God, Able and Willing from thence to dispense it unto you. So go on expressing the Reliance of your Soul upon Him, for that Favour in all the parts of it; Say, all that you would have; until you can conclude, Lord, All my Desire is before thee, and my Groaning is not hid from thee.
Secondly. You may find Intervening Spaces while you are about this Work of the Lord, for to prosecute many Special Designs of Godliness, which would here have their most Effectual Prosecution. There are Intervening Pauses, whereof tis pity a moment should be lost. Now, it were all Wisdom and Prudence in you, before your coming hither, to Shape some Holy Designs, which you will come upon. Besides what the Sermons Preached on these Occasions may Lead you to think upon; you may aforehand ponder, What remarkable Deficiency in my Christianity should I now seek to have repaired? Or, What is the Distemper in my Soul, that I will now go to the Lord ⟨p. 22⟩