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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.
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 ⟨p. 37⟩be put in remembrance of Gods displeasure against it, his hatred that he bears unto it, & the dreadful effects and deserts thereof, and is not this done more livelily in the Lords Supper? Gods displeasure against sin is more discovered in the Death of Christ, than in turning the Angels out of Heaven, or Adam out of Paradise; or in the Destruction of the Old World, or in the burning of Sodom, or in the Damnation of innumerable unbelieving and impenitent Persons.
Fourthly, Do you not often need so great an help for the breaking and so•tning of your heart, for the renewing of your repentance for sin, and strengthning 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 ⟨p. 37⟩be put in remembrance of Gods displeasure against it, his hatred that he bears unto it, & the dreadful effects and deserts thereof, and is not this done more livelily in the Lords Supper? Gods displeasure against sin is more discovered in the Death of Christ, than in turning the Angels out of Heaven, or Adam out of Paradise; or in the Destruction of the Old World, or in the burning of Sodom, or in the Damnation of innumerable unbelieving and impenitent Persons.
Fifthly, Do you not often need so great an help for the increasing of your Love to God and Christ? Do you often complain that you love God no more, and will you not more often use this so great a means for the increasing of your Love?
Fifthly, Do you not often need so great an help for the increasing of your Love to God and Christ? Do you often complain that you love God no more, and will you not more often use this so great a means for the encreasing of your Love?