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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.
Secondly, Do you not often blot your Evidences, and disturb your peace? and have you not need of the frequent use of that Ordinance, wherein God might renew your evidence and speak peace unto your Conscience? Do you often contract guilt, and should you not often come to have your pardon sealed and confirmed to your Soul in the blood of Christ?
Thirdly, Do you not often need the means of spiritual warmth and quicknings? Are you not often dull, and often dead, and often lukewarm? and do not those that are often sick, often need their Physic to purge and make them well? If you are sometime warmed in an Ordinance, do not your affections abate again? That you have not that liveliness of affections, nor that reviving joy, which in the actual performance of the duty you did find? and is it needful to exhort you that have found the benefit of this Ordinance, to go often to it? Let the Experience of what you have found in it, and the want you do lie under by seldom approaching unto it, quicken your desires after a frequent attendance upon God in it.
Thirdly, Do you not often need the means of spiritual warmth and quicknings? Are you not often dull, and often dead, and often lukewarm? and do not those that are often sick, often need their Phisick to purge and make them well? If you are sometime warmed in an Ordinance, do not your affections abate again? That you have not that liveliness of affections, nor that reviving joy, which in the actual performance of the duty you did find? and is it needful to exhort you that have found the benefit of this Ordinance, to go often to it? Let the Experience of what you have found in it, and the want you do lie under by seldom approaching unto it, quicken your desires after a frequent attendance upon God in it.
Fourthly, Do you not often need so great an help for the breaking and softening of your heart, for the renewing of your repentance for sin, and strengthening and confirming of your resolutions against it? Is not your heart too apt to fall in love with sin, and to renew its League with sin? Do you not often need to