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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.
CHAP. VII. Third Conclusion, proving we are to give great diligence to prepare our selves for the receiving of the Lords Supper.
That whensoever you are to partake of the Lords Supper, you are to be painful & serious in making preparation for it.
THat whensoever you are to partake of the Lords Supper, you are to be painful & serious in making preparation for it.
This preparation must be for these reasons, which you may lay to your heart, and find them to be quickening motives to stir you up thereto.
This preparation must be for these reasons, which you may lay to your heart, and find them to be quickning motives to stir you up thereto.
First, From the preparation they were wont to make […] the Passover under the Law, 2 Chron. 30.3. They could not keep it at that time, because the Priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently: They did for a while defer it till they had made more preparation for it: And after their diligence to prepare, they prayed for the pardon of their imperfect preparation,