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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.
First, Do you not see your self utterly lost and undone? Do you not see your misery out of Christ?
Secondly, are you not sensible of the sins •hat brought you into this miserable Condition? Is it not the burden your Soul groans under, and would willingly, heartily willingly be eased of it, as ever sick man was of his sickness, or Prisoner of his chains? Doth it not grieve you, that your […] have been committed? and if they were to do again, by the Grace of God you would not do them?
Secondly, are you not sensible of the sins •hat brought you into this miserable Condition? Is it not the burden your Soul groans •nder, and would willingly, heartily willingly be eased of it, as ever sick man was of his sickness, or Prisoner of his chains? Doth it not •rieve you, that your 〈…〉 have been committed? and if they were to do again, by the Grace of God you would not do them?
Thirdly, Do you conscientiously practise whatever you have been convinced is your Duty, and dare not omit it when you know it? Do you give your self to Prayer and Meditation, and other du•ies? And yet do you see the emptiness and the insufficiency of them to justify you in the sight of God? that as you dare not omit them, so you dare not rest in them, or rely upon them▪ because you see your Prayers have need of Pardon, and your Tears have need of being washed in the Blood of Christ? That you do go out of your self, and seek for Salvation in another. And therefore,