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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.
The parallel of this is, The casting away of our sins, when by diligent search we have found it ou•. We must not find our sin, to indulge it, but to forsake and kill it: Not to ⟨p. 42⟩have our Hearts to hanker after our sin, when we come to the Lords Table.
Fourthly, They had a Form of Words for the cursing of that leavened Bread, which they could not find out, viz. All the Leaven that i• in my power, whether seen by me, or not seen, cleansed by me, or not cleansed; let it be nothing, let it be esteemed as nothing; as the dust of the Earth, let it be scattered and destroyed.
The Parallel of this is, The disowning of every sin, seen or not seen, after this manner, Lord, if there be any sin in me, which after all my searching of my Heart, I have not found out, let it be accursed, let it be as nothing, as the dust of the Earth; if there be any sin in me, which i• not dealt severely with, it is not because I love it, but because I could not find it.