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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.
Quest. 3 Is not this to set light by a special Token of the love of your dying Lord? The nearer Christ was unto his death, the more lively were the discoveries of his love unto your S•ul & will you take no more notice of it? Methinks Christ when he was to die, speaketh thus unto his people, You are they whom I have loved; you are they for whom I will do and die; you are they whom I will always think upon, and in whose Thoughts I love to live; and because the hour of my death is come, and I must go away from you, therefore I will leave you a Memorial of my Death and Love, that as oft as you see it, you may remember me; when you behold it, then think of me: And was Christ mindful of your good and comfort in that very night in which he was betrayed; and will you thus neglect and disesteem it? If your most dear and special Friend upon his death bed had bequeathed you some token of his love, and said, When you behold this, then think on me when I am dead and gone, ⟨p. 24⟩would you throw it by, and never view it? Do not the Expressions of your dying Friends make a deeper, and a more large impression upon your hea•t, and thoughts? And shal• not the words and entreaties, and commands of your dying Lord?
Quest. 3 Is not this to set light by a special Token of the love of your dying Lord? The nearer Christ was unto his death, the more lively were the discoveries of his love unto your S•ul & will you take no more notice of it? Methinks Christ when he was to die, speaketh thus unto his people, You are they whom I have loved; you are they for whom I will do and die; you are they whom I will always think upon, and in whose Thoughts I love to live; and because the hour of my death is come, and I must go away from you, therefore I will leave you a Memorial of my Death and Love, that as oft as you see it, you may remember me; when you behold it, then think of me: And was Christ mindful of your good and comfort in that very night in which he was betrayed; and will you thus neglect and distesteem it? If your most dear and special Friend upon his death bed had bequeathed you some token of his love, and said, When you behold this, then think on me when I am dead and gone, ⟨p. 24⟩