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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.
3. If this might be, that a Soul may be unfeignedly willing to accept of Christ upon his own terms, and yet perish, then at the last day some might plead and appeal to God: Lord, I was willing to be holy, but thou wast not willing to make me holy: I was willing to receive thee upon thine ⟨p. 33⟩own terms, but thou wouldest not give thy self unto me, no, not upon thine own terms; and I am not damned because I was not willing to be truly sanctified and renewed, but because Christ would reject me willing to come to him. But there shall not be a man that shall dare to open his mouth in this manner unto Christ at the last day.
4. But this will be manifest, that Christ i• more willing than you, in that he did die more willingly for you, than you •an for him; He did die more willingly to make you holy, than you can for holiness sake, or for his sake, when you are made holy; hath he died for you, to purchase Holiness, and Grace, and Glory for you, and yet will you think that you are willing, and not Christ? Nay, Christ was more willing to die for you, than you are to live to him, and was he not yet willing? when you think Christ is not willing, think upon the Sorrows, the […] Sufferings he endured in his Body, […] •oul, how he sweat as it were great drops of Blood; nay, bled and died for you, and then say no more you are willing, but Christ is not.
4. But this will be manifest, that Christ i• more willing than you, in that he did die more willingly for you, than you •an for him; He did die more willingly to make you holy, than you can for holiness sake, or for his sake, when you are made holy; hath he died for you, to purchase Holiness, and Grace, and Glory for you, and yet will you think that you are willing, and not Christ? Nay, Christ was more willing to die for you, than you are to live to him, and was he not yet willing? when you think Christ is not willing, think upon the Sorrows, the Sufferings he endured in his Body, oul, how he sweat as it were great drops of Blood; nay, bled and died for you, and then say no more you are willing, but Christ is not.