The Young Communicants Remembrancer A Treatise Etc

Author : Matthew Henry
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230056883
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book The Young Communicant; an Aid to the Right Understanding and Spiritual Improvement of the Lord's Supper written by Matthew Henry and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...bound, that we might go free. Behold him prosecuted and condemned, because he was made sin for us, and had undertaken to answer for our guilt. Behold him upon the cross, enduring the pain, and despising the shame. Here is his body broken, his blood shed, his soul poured i out unto death; all his sufferings, with all their aggravations, are here represented. We are here called to see many other things, which we may infer from this general representation of the sufferings of Christ. I When we break this bread, we should ask ourselves, What do we come to the Lord's table to see? / We see the evil of sin. It was for our transgressions that Christ was thus wounded; for our iniquities that he was bruised, j 0, my soul, it is an evil and bitter thing, that j thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. Here sin appears exceedingly sinful. What! mischief it makes; how dear it cost the Redeemer, when he undertook to satisfy for it; how he sweat and groaned, bled and died, when the 'Lord laid upon him the iniquities of us all!' The fatal consequences of sin are seen more in the sufferings of Christ, thnn in all the calamities that it has brought upon the world. 0 what a painful, shameful thing is sin, which put the Lord Jesus to so much pain, to so much shame! See this, my soul, with application; it was thy own iniquity, that lay so heavy upon the Lord Jesus, when he cried out, 'My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.' It was thy pride and passion, thy worldliness and uncleanliness, that crowned him with thorns, nailed him to the cross, and laid him for a time under the sense of God's withdrawing from him. And shall I ever again make a light matter of that of which Christ made so great a matter? God forbid! We here see the justice of God. The great...