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A treatise concerning the Lords Supper
A treatise concerning the Lords Supper: with three dialogues for the more full information of the weak, in the nature and use of this sacrament. / By Tho. Doolittel [sic].
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. IV. Containing twelve Questions to those Believers that neglect the Lords Supper.
LET me proceed to show you the aggravations of your long neglect of the Lords Supper: I pray you therefore tell me,
LET me proceed to shew you the aggravations of your long neglect of the Lords Supper: I pray you therefore tell me,
Quest. 1. Is not this to live in the neglect of a plain commanded duty? You see it proved to be your duty, and is it nothing to you to live in a known sin? Nay, and to plead for it too? As you do for not coming to this Ordinance, it may be it is because you doubt of your sincerity, and might not this increase your doubts, when you are partial in your Obedience to Gods Commands?
Quest 2. Is not this great Hypocrisy to complain of the hardness of your Hearts, and yet will […] use the means to have it s•••ned? To comp•••n of the Power of your sins, and yet will not bring them to the Cr•ss of Christ to have them