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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.
First, From the Actions before.
First, Before they did eat the Passover, they were to cleanse their Houshold•stuff, their Vessels and Utensils from all leavened Bread, that none might be found in them, no• cleave unto them.
First, Before they did eat the Passeover, they were to cleanse their Houshold•stuff, their Vessels and U•ensils from all leavened Bread, that none might be found in them, no• cleave unto them.
The Parallel is, Before we eat the Lords Supper, we must cleanse our hearts and lives from all known sin, that we allow our selves in no known wickedness, that we do not drive a trade of sin, nor be drudges to the Devil, nor Factors for Hell; we may come with many sins bewailed, striving against, and groaning under them, but not with one sin allowed and approved of.
Secondly, Then they made a stricter search after any bit of leavened Bread, by lighting a Candle, and looking into every little Corner and Chink in the House, the Night before the Passover.