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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 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?
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 ben•fit of it, that you have since so long neg••cted 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 fulness 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?
Quest 10. Is it not all one to you, if there had been no such Ordinance appointed? What is it to you, if you receive it not? I• it be a Sacrament to others, yet it is not to you: If it be a Seal to others, yet it is not unto you that live in the neglect ⟨p. 27⟩of it. The Lamb was not the passover, but the Lamb killed and roast, and eaten, was the Passover. Nay, let me tell you, it had been better for you if Christ had not ordained it at all; for you could then but have been without the benefit of it, and so […] are now, while you do neglect it: But thn you would have been without that sin and guilt that now you contract by forbearing of it?