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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.
OF THE LORDS SUPPER.
1 Cor. 11 23, 24 25, &c The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, Eat, this is my body which is broken for you, this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the Cup▪ when he had supped, saying, This Cup is the New-Testament in my Blood; this do •e as oft as y• drink it, in remembrance of me, &c.
CHAP. I. Containing the Explication of the Text, and the general Conclusion handled in this Treatise.
THE Riches of the Goodness and Love of God were exceeding abundant towards Man in his first Creation, when God brought him out of the state of nothing, and advanced him to the excellency of the humane ⟨p. 2⟩Nature, capable not only of ruling his fellow-Creatures in this World, but of knowing and conversing with his Lord Creator, who was graciously pleased to condescend to enter into Covenant with his then innocent Creature, that upon condition of his perfect obeying the Will of his Maker, (which he had then power to perform) he should continue in that state of Happiness. But great were the Riches of his Mercy to Man fallen from so great happiness to so great misery in making a Covenant of Grace, establishing it in the Blood of his Son, adding his Oath, annexing his Seals for the confirmation of our Faith, that we should upon condition of believing, be Partakers of the great and glorious Privileges purchased by Christ, promised in the Scripture, sealed in this Sacrament; concerning which the Apostle spends the latter part of this Chapter, 1. In reproving the Corinthians for their abuse and profanation thereof: In that some that were contentious, and some that were vicious, even when they were drunken did approach thereto; who degrading themselves below the rank of men, could not then well act their Reason, when they should have acted Faith, and Love, and other Graces. It is an heinous sin, that those that are reeling in the street should be seen kneeling at the Sacrament. 2. In reducing them to the Primitive Institution, in which there is observable,