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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.
Seventhly, Do you not often need so great an help to put you in remembrance of your Lord Jesus? Are you not too apt to forget him and his Love in dying for you? Is he so much in your Thoughts as he doth deserve? Or is it enough to have some Occasional Thoughts of Christ? Or should you not more solemnly dwell in your Meditations upon him? And doth not the Nature and the end of this Ordinance lead and help you to ⟨p. 38⟩fix your thoughts more permanently upon him, when you see how he was crucified and died for you?
Eighthly, Do you not often need so great an help to make you more thankful for the matchless Love wherewith he hath loved you, and the unparalleled Blessings he hath purchased for you, and conferred upon you? Is it not a shame and sin, you are no more in praising God, and rejoicing in him for such privileges that were procured b• the blood of his only Son, and your dearest Lord? And can you sit at the Table and not have your Souls raised in the highest Admiration of his Love and Mercy to you?
Eighthly, Do you not often need so great an help to make you more thankful for the matchless Love wherewith he hath loved you, and the unparallel'd B•essings he hath purchased for you, and conferred upon you? Is it not a shame and sin, you are no more in praising God, and rejoycing in him for such priviledges that were procured b• the blood of his only Son, and your dearest Lord? And can you sit at the Table and not have your Souls raised in the highest Admiration of his Love and Mercy to you?
Ninthly, Do you not often need so great an help for the getting and maintaining of more intimate Communion with God, and fellowship with Jesus Christ? Is it not here, that God doth abundantly let forth himself into his peoples Hearts? Is it not here, that Believers feel the goings forth of their Hearts in Love unto him, and Desires after him, and Delight and Joy in him? Do you complain you have so little of God, and will not more often go where you may receive more influences from him.