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Preparing for the Lord's Supper

by William Bradshaw, Arthur Hildersham

The Edition

Volume editor
Lesley A. Rowe

Publication

Publisher
Soli Deo Gloria
Print status
Out of stock

The Physical Book

Binding
Hardcover
Total pages
185 pages
ISBN-13
9781601786609

Reference

Notes
Two Puritan treatises for self-examination before Communion: William Bradshaw's A Preparation to the Receiving of the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, and Arthur Hildersham's catechetical The Doctrine of Communicating Worthily in the Lord's Supper.
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • A Preparation to the Receiving of the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, by William Bradshaw
    • Dedicatory Epistle
    • To the Reader
    • Part 1: Showing What a Dangerous Sin It Is to Receive This Sacrament Unworthily
      • 1. Preparation in General, and the Apostles' Form Thereof
      • 2. The Author and Institutor of This Sacrament
      • 3. The First Administrator of This Sacrament
      • 4. When This Sacrament Was Instituted
      • 5. The Religious Manner of Instituting and Administering This Sacrament
      • 6. Outward Signs and Elements of This Sacrament
      • 7. Things Signified by the Signs Aforesaid
      • 8. The End and Use of This Sacrament in Respect of the Communicant
      • 9. The End and Use of This Sacrament in Respect of Others
      • 10. What It Is to Be Guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ
      • 11. By What Means in Receiving This Sacrament Men Become Guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ
      • 12. Why Unworthy Receivers Are Guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ
    • Part 2: Showing How to Prevent the Dangerous Sin of Profaning This Sacrament
      • 1. The Method of This Second Part
      • 2. The Trial of Ourselves in General
      • 3. The Trial of Our Faith by the Grounds Thereof
      • 4. The Trial of Our Faith by the Object or Matter Thereof
      • 5. The Trial of Our Repentance
      • 6. New Obedience and the Trial Thereof
      • 7. The Persons That Are to Make This Trial
      • 8. The Continuance in Trial till We Find That We Seek For
      • 9. The Curse That Follows the Neglect of the Trial Aforesaid
      • 10. The Special Signs and Tokens of the Aforesaid Curse in the Church of Corinth
    • Part 3: A Brief Form of Examination (Q&A 1-75)
  • The Doctrine of Communicating Worthily in the Lord's Supper, by Arthur Hildersham
    • To the Reader
    • Questions and Answers 1-100