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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.
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,
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 justifie 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,
Fourthly, Do you not unfeignedly desire after Christ, and hunger and thirst for him ⟨p. 30⟩and his Righteousness? Are you not willing•• to accept of him upon any terms, upon […] own conditions, for your Lord and Saviour•• are you not willing that he should sancti••• as well as save you? And bring you to obedience as well as unto glory? Doth not yo•• judgment value him above all? And yo•• will choose him before all? And are not yo affections of love, and desire, and joy set upon him? If you doubt whether you lo him, yet tell me whether you would lo him? If you would, you do. If you doubt whther you have received him, yet tell me whther you are willing, unfeignedly willing […] take him upon his own terms, and choose […] for your treasure, and your happiness, an your chiefest joy? If you are willing thus […] receive him, you have received him, and so yo are habitually prepared for this Ordinan and ought not to continue in the neglect of […]