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A companion for communicants

Published: 1690
Length: 42,677 words
Reading: ~3 hours
Divisions: 40

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A companion for communicants. Discourses upon the nature, the design, and the subject of the Lords Supper; with devout methods of preparing for, and approaching to that blessed ordinance. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church at Boston. ; [Seven lines from Augustine]

Printed at Boston by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris at the London Coffee-House 1690.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

Front matter
Title page
Dedication
Text
DiscourseInvitations to the SUPPER of the LORD, With a DISCOURSE on the Nature, Design and Subject of that Blessed…
Proposition 1
Proposition 2PROPOSITION, II.
3 conclusions
Application
3 considerations
DiscoursePREPARATIONS for the SUPPER of the LORD With The MARKS of a Good State, by which Communicants may be…

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Proposition 2Proposition. II.
3 assertions
Application
3 directions
Case 1The first Case. What Signs of a Good State are those after which the Self-Examination of every Communicant…
3 questions
Case 2The second Case.
DiscourseDEVOTIONS At the SUPPER of the LORD; With Some Touches upon the constitution of the Gospel Churches which…
Conclusion 1Conclusion. I
Conclusion 2
Application
Counsel 1Counsil. 1.
Counsel 2Counsil. 2.
Council 3Counsil 3.
CloseThe Close of all.
Back matter
Errata
Publishers advertisementBooks Printed for, and Sold by Benjamin Harris, at the London-Coffee-House in Boston.

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Author: Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
Imprint: Printed at Boston by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris at the London Coffee-House 1690.
Extent: [8], 167, [1] p. ; 14 cm. (8vo)
Language: English
Catalogue: Evans 535 · Wing M1091
Source: TCP N00426
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Text Creation Partnership)

A companion for communicants

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