Doctrinal and Practical Treatise on the Lord's Supper: Containing Copious Illustrations of the Leading Doctrines of the Gospel, and of the Leading Duties and Varied Experience of the Christian Life (Classic Reprint)

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Many of the older treatises are almost entirely out of print, or to be found only in the voluminous works of their respective authors, and are therefore beyond the reach of the general reader. Some of them, moreover, contain directions to communi cants, which by many most competent judges are now regarded as injudicious-because proceeding on the supposition of greater uniformity in the experience of those who are in a proper state for communicating, than Scripture warrants us to ex pect or require - and as more likely to discourage and afflict the conscientious and humble, than to arouse the heedless or repress the formalist. And although others of these treatises, which have recent ly been reprinted in a separate form, may, in point of intrinsic excellence, greatly surpass any modern production, they are yet so complex in their strue ture, the unity of their plan is often so obscured by multiplied divisions, and they are written in a style so foreign to our present modes of thought and expression, as thus to lose much of their attraction to the popular mind.

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