An introduction to the sacrament, or, A short, plain, and safe way to the communion table being an instruction for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper / collected for and familiarly addressed to every particular communicant.

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An introduction to the sacrament, or, A short, plain, and safe way to the communion table being an instruction for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper / collected for and familiarly addressed to every particular communicant.
Author
Addison, Lancelot, 1632-1703.
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London :: Printed for William Crooke ...,
1682.
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LXXXV.

Those who after their con∣version to the Christian Faith, did again return to the sins of their former unconverted life, they made their Christian Hea∣thenism worse than their bare Heathenism was at first. So that it had been more for the

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advantage of such, never to have been taught the Doctrine of Christ and Christian practice, than when they had been taught and undertaken to obey it, to fall back again into their hea∣then and vicious courses, 2 Pet. 2. 20, 21. And you know what happened to the man in St. Mat. 12. 43. who (after the evil Guests were cast out of his Soul) kept it emptie of those that were good: Which is easi∣ly applicable to all those who wilfully and knowingly run a∣gain to those evil ways which at their coming to the Sacrament they pretend to repent of and abandon.

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