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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 8 Is it not this to grieve the Spirit of God, and to make him more angry and displeased with you, and to withdraw himself further from your Soul? Can God take it kindly at your hands, when he hath killed the fatted Calf, and made ready his Marriage Supper, and sent his Servants forth to call you ⟨p. 26⟩and invite you, and you turn your back upon it? Do you not provoke him to leave your hearts to great deadness, and let you go sorrowing to your Grave, and never let you taste of the sweetness of these comforts till you get to Heaven? Or how can you complain that God departeth from you, when you will not come near unto him; that he withdraweth from your Soul, when you withdraw from your duty?
Quest 8 Is it not this to grieve the Spirit of God, and to make him more angry and displeased with you, and to withdraw himself further from your Soul? Can God take it kindly at your hands, when he hath killed the fatted Calf, and made ready his Marriage Supper, and sent his Servants forth to call you ⟨p. 26⟩and invite you, and you turn your back upon it? Do you not provoke him to leave your hearts to great deadness, and let you go sorrowing to your Grave, and never let you taste of the sweetness of these comforts till you get to Heaven? Or how can you complain that God d•parte•h from you, when you will not come near unto him; that he withdrawe•h from your Soul, when you withdraw from your duty?
Quest 9 Is it not too great a sign that when you did receive i•, you tasted not of the sweetness of i•? and that you missed of the comfort and the benefit of it, that you have since so long neglected it? Do you think you have not cause to repent of your former receiving, when he did not leave an earnest longing in your Soul to come again? Was it possible for you to meet with God, and taste the sweetness of the fullness of Christ, and not desire and long for the like opportunity again? Had you experimentally found the reachings forth of your love to God, and desires after him, and have tasted the sweetness of such actings of love and joy, could you have abstained so long?