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Directions for Daily Communion With God, in 3 Discourses, and the Communicant's Companion
Directions for Daily Communion With God in 3 Discourses and the Communicant's Companion Author:Matthew Henry General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 156 CHAPTER V. INSTRUCTIONS FOR RENEWING OUR COVENANTS WITH GOD IN OUR PREPARATION FOR THIS ORDINANCE. I. In what method we must renew our covenant with God. (i.) We must repent of onr sins, by which we have rendered ourselves unworthy to he taken into covenant: three things to be lamented, (n.) We must renounce the devil, the world, and the flesh: opened in three things. (in.) We must receive Christ as offered to us, consenting to his grace, and to his government, (iv.) We must resign and give up ourselves to God in Christ; devote ourselves to his praise, and submit ourselves to his power: in three things. (v.) We must resolve to abide in it : opened in two things. (vi.) We must rely on the righteousness and strength of Christ herein: opened in two things. II. After what manner we mnst renew our covenant; intelligently, considerately, humbly, cheerfully, and in sincerity. It is the wonderful condescension of the God of heaven, that he hath been pleased to deal with man in the way of a covenant; that, on the one hand, we might receive strong consolations from the promises of the covenant, which are very sweet and precious ; and, on the other hand, might lie under strong obligations from the conditions of the covenant, which on this account have greater cogency in them than mere precept, that we ourselves have occasioned to them, and that we have therein consulted our own interest and advantage. The ordinance of the Lord's Supper being a seal of the covenant, and the solemn exchanging of the ratifications of it, it is necessary we make the covenant before we pretend to seal it. In this order, there...« less