Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... It is a Holy Communion 125 still no one who feels any fear of God, would willingly expose himself to His displeasure. But to those who imagine that they are too sinful to go, we reply that if they really and truly feel themselves to be sinful, and are desirous not to continue so, they are in a state of mind exactly fitted for the profitable reception of the ordinance; whereas, if they wait till they are not sinful, they certainly will never go at all. All that any one has to do, is to ask himself, Am I sorry for my sins, and desirous by Christ's help to be made better? If this is sincerely asked and answered, no one need shrink from going to the Communion, or rather, every one should greatly fear of the consequences of staying away. For thereby he violates an express command of Christ, he rejects the chief appointed means of union with Him, and so incurs in the strictest sense, the condemnation of Grod. V. Neither must we neglect that view of the Lord's Supper, which represents it as a Communion with each other, and a sign of our union with Christ, as belonging to a body of which He is the Head. This, 126 with each other through Christ. says St. John, is God's commandment, that we should love one another, as He gave us commandment.'1 While performing our highest act of faith, we also pledge ourselves to the purest and holiest love of one another. But as the spirit of that feeding on Christ which the Communion represents, ought to pervade every part of our daily life, so also should the spirit of that love which it expresses, extend through all our dealings with every one for whom Christ has died. This view of it teaches us also that all our friendships and affections should be carried on in Him and through Him, and that those whom we...
